| 2026-07-01 |
₹14.25 lakh was recovered from Lavkush Mishra of Milkipur, Ayodhya, accused of stealing temple offerings.
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| 2026-07-01 |
₹16.82 lakh was recovered from Anukalp Mishra of Rudauli, Ayodhya, accused of stealing temple offerings.
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| 2026-07-01 |
According to sources, these two committed the biggest share of the offering theft, and the investigation so far has traced several properties belonging to them.
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| 2026-07-01 |
Among the eight accused in the Ram Mandir offering theft are 27-year-old Lavkush Mishra and 20-year-old Anukalp Mishra, who are brothers-in-law.
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| 2026-07-01 |
If an average of ₹5 lakh in offerings was stolen every day from the start, then roughly ₹44.5 crore has been stolen over 890 days — an estimated, not confirmed, figure.
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| 2026-06-30 |
During that visit, Anil Mishra connected Champat Rai on a phone call with someone, after which Champat Rai returned without filing the FIR.
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| 2026-06-30 |
On 27 May police caught six accused, taking Tinnu Yadav, Anukalp Mishra, and Karunesh Pandey into custody, and also apprehending Lavkush and Avinash Shukla.
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| 2026-06-30 |
Those entrusted with the responsibility of serving Ram turned out to be the thieves; jewellery was stolen and money was misappropriated.
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| 2026-06-30 |
There is no doubt that every Ram devotee is pained and troubled by the donation-theft scandal and wants the harshest possible punishment for those who committed this betrayal of Ram.
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| 2026-06-30 |
All members of the Ram Mandir trust are Hindus, the eight accused currently in jail are Hindus, and the trust members facing allegations are also Hindus.
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| 2026-06-30 |
People who hold power or high office but do not work for public welfare and take bribes for self-interest are all corrupt in the eyes of society.
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| 2026-06-30 |
Several prominent names are emerging as accused in the theft of temple offerings (chadhava).
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| 2026-06-29 |
India's cyber security agency CERT-In has issued an advisory that hackers are targeting WhatsApp Web users by hacking a contact's number and sending a VBS file from it; opening the file gives hackers access to all the data on the device.
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| 2026-06-29 |
Chetan rode a scooter about 90 km to Lohagad fort to avoid leaving a trail at toll plazas, and entered the fort wearing a hoodie in over 30-degree heat.
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| 2026-06-29 |
According to police, Siya took ₹1 crore from Ketan in the name of wedding shopping and gave all of it to her lover Chetan Chaudhary instead of shopping.
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| 2026-06-29 |
Pune's Maval court has extended the police custody of Siya Goyal and Chetan Chaudhary until July 3; the two were arrested on June 23.
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| 2026-06-29 |
Ayodhya lawyers have decided that no lawyer will represent the offering-theft accused, any lawyer who does will be fined ₹5 lakh, and the Bar Association has given an ultimatum that Champat Rai and Anil Mishra must leave Ayodhya within 3 days.
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| 2026-06-29 |
Tinnu Yadav is Champat Rai's former driver and was so trusted that Champat Rai handed him the keys to the donation boxes, which police have recovered from Tinnu.
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| 2026-06-29 |
Anukalp Mishra was poor before getting the Ram Mandir job, but while counting offerings he built a sizeable house in Ayodhya's Kaushalpuri.
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| 2026-06-29 |
Accused Anukalp Mishra was responsible for counting cash in the counting room, played the main role in covering and tampering with CCTV cameras, and hid stolen offerings in the bathroom.
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| 2026-06-29 |
Police have already taken Siya to the crime scene and recreated the incident, during which she appeared breathless at the spot where her fiancé Ketan was murdered before her eyes.
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| 2026-06-29 |
The car driver who dropped Ketan, Siya, and her brother Sahil at Mumbai airport on June 6 has also given a statement exposing Siya's conspiracy.
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| 2026-06-29 |
Siya and Ketan were to go to Bali on a pre-wedding trip on June 6, but Siya made Ketan's passport disappear on the way to the airport, forcing the trip to be cancelled.
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| 2026-06-29 |
The plan was that Chetan would improve his financial standing with the money, and three years after Ketan's murder Siya would marry him with her family's consent.
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| 2026-06-29 |
According to police, Siya took ₹1 crore from Ketan in the name of wedding shopping, did no shopping, and gave all the money to her lover Chetan Chaudhary.
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