Thiruvananthapuram: The Travancore royal family today came out against an audit report by former Comptroller and Auditor General Vinod Rai over alleged theft of gold valuables from the Sree Padmanabha Swamy shrine here, saying it was never consulted in its preparation.

Adithya Varma, a member of the the erstwhile royal family which had earlier managed the centuries-old shrine, said, "Such huge difference in the figures (regarding the gold valuables) in the report is unbelievable."