| 2026-06-30 |
Per the channel's sources, senior members of the trust repeatedly and directly told Champat Rai that offerings were being stolen and must be stopped, but he brushed it off every time saying nothing of the sort was happening.
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| 2026-06-30 |
According to the channel's sources, Champat Rai already knew that the people he had brought into the Ram Mandir on trust were the ones stealing by exploiting his name, but he did little beyond expressing regret.
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| 2026-06-30 |
Three days later, on June 8, Champat Rai was telling the media that no theft of offerings had taken place.
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| 2026-06-30 |
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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| 2026-06-30 |
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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| 2026-06-30 |
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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