Bhubaneswar, Feb. 10: Chief minister Naveen Patnaik today ordered an administrative inquiry into the controversy related to an attempt of International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Iskcon) to set up a Jagannath temple in Puri.

According to the chief minister's order, the revenue divisional commissioner will conduct a probe and submit a detailed report on this issue to the state government within two months.

The issue snowballed into a major controversy after the BJP raised the issue of Iskcon planning to set up a Jagannath temple at Baliapanada, 2.5km from the 12th century Jagannath temple, and hardly 200 metres away from the beach.

Sources said while Iskcon had sought the administration's permission, it had not mentioned that it was going to build the temple. It had applied for permission to construct a five-storey building and a temple on the premises.

As the issue took a political colour, the Iskcon came out with a clarification that they were not going to build a second Jagannath temple. Their plan was to build a Radha-Krishna temple and its proposed height was only 32 feet.

Later, the housing and urban development department had asked the vice-chairman of Puri-Konark Development Authority (PKDA) and Puri district collector to furnish a report on the row. The collector had been asked to find out under what circumstances the PKDA had given its nod to the project and what sort of temple was going to come up. Later, the collector had served a noticed to Iskcon to come out with a detailed reply to its queries on the issue. As the Iskcon has moved he high court, the Puri collector has deferred the case to February 16.