Ayodhya, July 7 (IANS) Mahant Kamal Nayan Das, the designated successor to Mahant Nritya Gopal Das, on Tuesday said that no one wanted Champat Rai to step down as the General Secretary of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust, even as the Trust accepted his resignation following the controversy surrounding the alleged Ram Temple donation irregularities. The Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust on Monday accepted the resignations of General Secretary Champat Rai and trustee Anil Mish…
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Ayodhya, July 7 (IANS) Police in Uttar Pradesh’s Ayodhya have moved the court seeking custody of three accused from whom substantial amounts of cash were recovered, as part of the ongoing investigation into the Ram Temple donation theft case. According to the police, custody has been sought to obtain crucial information related to the bank accounts of the accused and to trace the financial trail linked to the recovered money.Officials said investigators suspect that a portion of the allegedly st…
Ayodhya, July 3 (IANS) Fresh developments have emerged in the alleged theft of donations at the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya, with investigators obtaining what is believed to be the first photograph showing two of the accused, Avinash Shukla and Anukalp Mishra, inside the temple’s cash counting facility. The image has become a significant piece of evidence in the ongoing investigation, as it places the accused inside the room where offerings made by devotees were counted and processed.Both Avinash Shuk…
Ayodhya, July 1 (IANS) Even as the Special Investigation Team (SIT) intensifies its probe into embezzlement of donations and offerings at the Ram Temple, the series of disclosures sheds light on the deep nexus that existed among the temple staff and how they breached all norms and violated Ram bhakts’ trust to fill their own coffers. Latest revelations in the temple theft episode show the amount of cash recovered from seven out of eight accused. Though crores of money and valuables are reporte…
Ayodhya, June 28 (IANS) Police on Sunday recovered jewellery and documents from the house of accused Ramshankar Yadav alias Tinnu Yadav, after searches were conducted at the residences of all eight accused, arrested in connection with the alleged misappropriation of donations and offerings at the Ram Mandir.This comes after the eight individuals were sent to three-day judicial custody on Friday. They will stay in jail till June 29 and will be produced before a city court again on Monday.Accordin…
Ayodhya, June 28 (IANS) Police on Sunday conducted searches at the residences of all the eight accused, arrested in connection with alleged misappropriation of donations and offerings at the Ram Mandir.This comes after the eight individuals were sent to three-day judicial custody on Friday. They will stay in jail till June 29 and will be produced before the city court again on Monday.Krishna Nand Tiwari, a neighbour of accused Anukalp Mishra, said: “Action is being taken, brother (Mishra) or who…
New Delhi, June 26 (IANS) As the First Information Report (FIR) in the Ram Temple donation controversy named eight persons, including a temple attendant, former bank staff and those engaged in cash counting, for alleged misappropriation of cash and offerings, several banking officials are likely to face the heat over ‘collusion’ in the alleged theft. All eight arrested accused, namely Avinash Shukla, Anukalp Mishra, Lavkush Mishra, Manish Kumar Yadav, Karunesh Pandey, Ramashankar Mishra, Sub…
Ayodhya, June 26 (IANS) All eight people named in the FIR over alleged embezzlement of donations and offerings at the Ram temple in Ayodhya have been arrested. The arrests followed registration of an FIR over charges of pilferage at the grand temple.The case stemmed from a formal complaint filed by Shri Krishna Mohan, a member of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Trust.All the eight accused, namely Avinash Shukla, Anukalp Mishra, Lavkush Mishra, Manish Kumar Yadav, Karunesh Pandey, Ramashankar Mishra, Su…