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Three days later, on June 8, Champat Rai was telling the media that no theft of offerings had taken place.
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On June 5, police recovered ₹5 lakh in cash from the house of Avinash Shukla, who counted the temple offerings, but even then Champat Rai did not file an FIR.
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Between April 27 and June 5, theft was caught 70 times on three CCTV cameras, yet Champat Rai kept denying that any theft had occurred.
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The anchor insinuates that 'Champat' (an apparent reference to a figure associated with the temple) has built a web/scheme of obstruction that the government may be unable to break.
temple trust obstruction
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Theft of devotional offerings (chadhava) is occurring at the Shri Ram Mandir, and Aaj Tak has conducted an investigation into it titled 'Champat ke Chakkar Mein'.
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Those who considered Kashmir their own and refused to leave were killed, like Sarla Bhat.
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After Sarla Bhat's murder, her family had to abandon their home because terrorists also attacked their house with a grenade.
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Accused Khurshid Ahmad is hiding in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, while the remaining accused have died.
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Yasin Malik is currently lodged in Tihar jail in a terror funding case and has been sentenced to life imprisonment.
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The chargesheet names five accused including Yasin Malik, then commander of the terrorist organisation JKLF, along with Khurshid Ahmad, Abdul Hamid Sheikh, Mohammad Yusuf Sofi and Ghulam Mohammad Taplu.
Yasin Malik chargesheet
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Terrorists brutally tortured Sarla Bhat and then shot her; her body was found in a bad condition on April 19, with a note near it calling her an informer.
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On June 29, the convict Bhimrao was sentenced to death.
Pune child rape-murder
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There were 18 injury marks on the child's body.
Pune child rape-murder
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A special fast-track POCSO court completed the trial within 60 days, awarded the death penalty, and declared the crime 'rarest of the rare'.
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The crime — the rape and murder of a 3-year-old girl in Pune — was committed by a 65-year-old man.
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A Pune court sentenced a man convicted of rape and murder to death within just 60 days.
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Kashmiri Pandit nurse Sarla Bhatt was kidnapped on 18 April 1990 and murdered by terrorists; 36 years later, the J&K State Investigation Agency has filed a 737-page chargesheet naming five accused including then-JKLF commander Yasin Malik.
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In a Delhi health procurement scam, the Anti-Corruption Branch arrested DGHS director general Dr. Vatsala Agrawal and deputy controller of accounts Neeraj Chopra; portable X-ray machines worth ₹1 lakh were bought for ₹33 lakh each, with ₹148 crore spent on 448 machines that should have cost ₹45 crore.
health procurement scam
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Wireless department officer Arjun Dev had monitored the Ram Mandir CCTV cameras since 2009 — 17 years without transfer — and multiple transfer orders for him were repeatedly withdrawn, allegedly because Champat Rai blocked them.
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On 5 June police recovered ₹5 lakh in cash from the house of offerings-counter Avinash Shukla, yet Champat Rai filed no FIR, and three days later on 8 June he told the media no theft of offerings had happened.
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Even after theft was caught 70 times on three CCTV cameras between 27 April and 5 June, Champat Rai kept denying that any theft had occurred.
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One week of hidden-camera recordings showed that employees stealing offerings would stand in front of the CCTV cameras during counting to block the view.
CCTV concealment
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According to the SIT investigation and the channel's findings, Champat Rai had known about the offerings theft for many months.
prior knowledge of theft
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Ram Mandir chief priest Mahant Satyendra Das, before his death, publicly questioned Champat Rai's functioning in November 2022, naming Tinnu Yadav, Gopal Rao, Anil Mishra and Champat Rai as acting like 'owners' of the temple.
priest's allegations
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₹4 crore was spent on guest house maintenance in just 11 months, and all this expenditure happened under Champat Rai's supervision.
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