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Aaj Ki Baat Show के आज के Highlights | 26 June 2026 | Ram Mandir Donation Row | Champat Rai Resign
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During transport of counted cash to the bank, bundles were packed with 14-15 wads of ₹10 notes instead of 10, and the extra wads were removed en route — this is when most of the theft occurred.
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| 2026-06-26 |
Aaj Ki Baat Show के आज के Highlights | 26 June 2026 | Ram Mandir Donation Row | Champat Rai Resign
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Champat Rai had handed most of the temple management responsibility to Tinku Yadav, including supervision of the 40 donation boxes in the temple complex and custody of the keys to the cash boxes.
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| 2026-06-26 |
Aaj Ki Baat Show के आज के Highlights | 26 June 2026 | Ram Mandir Donation Row | Champat Rai Resign
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Of those arrested, only Tinku Yadav and Subhash Srivastava were trust employees; the rest of the looters were on SBI's payroll.
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| 2026-06-26 |
Aaj Ki Baat Show के आज के Highlights | 26 June 2026 | Ram Mandir Donation Row | Champat Rai Resign
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A chain of recommendations placed one offering-thief after another into temple jobs (Tinku Yadav → Ravi Mishra → Anukalp Mishra → Lavkush Mishra) with no background verification by anyone.
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| 2026-06-26 |
Aaj Ki Baat Show के आज के Highlights | 26 June 2026 | Ram Mandir Donation Row | Champat Rai Resign
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The counting of offerings was the State Bank of India's responsibility and only SBI personnel should have been deployed, but Anil Mishra and Champat Rai placed their own close associates in this work.
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| 2026-06-26 |
Aaj Ki Baat Show के आज के Highlights | 26 June 2026 | Ram Mandir Donation Row | Champat Rai Resign
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News of Ram Mandir trustee Anil Mishra's resignation came today; he was primarily responsible for the counting of offerings.
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| 2026-06-26 |
Aaj Ki Baat Show के आज के Highlights | 26 June 2026 | Ram Mandir Donation Row | Champat Rai Resign
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Yogi Adityanath today assured devotees that those who committed sin in Ram's work will not be spared, no matter how high their position.
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| 2026-06-26 |
Aaj Ki Baat Show के आज के Highlights | 26 June 2026 | Ram Mandir Donation Row | Champat Rai Resign
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The court today sent all eight accused to jail, and police will file an application on Monday to take them on remand.
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| 2026-06-26 |
Aaj Ki Baat Show के आज के Highlights | 26 June 2026 | Ram Mandir Donation Row | Champat Rai Resign
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The SIT found that Champat Rai tried to suppress the matter and hide the truth.
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| 2026-06-26 |
Aaj Ki Baat Show के आज के Highlights | 26 June 2026 | Ram Mandir Donation Row | Champat Rai Resign
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According to the SIT, Champat Rai was the first to learn of the theft, personally recovered stolen money from the thieves' homes, but did not file an FIR despite repeated police advice.
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| 2026-06-26 |
Aaj Ki Baat Show के आज के Highlights | 26 June 2026 | Ram Mandir Donation Row | Champat Rai Resign
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All eight people arrested for looting temple offerings are close associates of Champat Rai and Anil Mishra, and were placed in the offering-counting work on their recommendation.
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| 2026-06-26 |
Aaj Ki Baat Show के आज के Highlights | 26 June 2026 | Ram Mandir Donation Row | Champat Rai Resign
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The SIT's preliminary investigation has found Champat Rai and Anil Mishra also culpable in the Ram Mandir theft case.
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| 2026-06-23 |
Aaj Ki Baat Show के आज के Highlights | 23 June 2026 | Ram Mandir Donation Row | Lucknow Fire Tragedy
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The dispute at the Nagrasu gurudwara in Rudraprayag, ongoing since Saturday, was resolved today when four Nihangs occupying the third floor came down after 72 hours, following talks between a Sikh delegation from Punjab and the administration.
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| 2026-06-23 |
Aaj Ki Baat Show के आज के Highlights | 23 June 2026 | Ram Mandir Donation Row | Lucknow Fire Tragedy
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BJP MLA Devyani Farande raised a demand in the Maharashtra assembly today to implement the Uniform Civil Code, claiming Maharashtra's polygamy ratio is higher than Pakistan's.
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| 2026-06-23 |
Aaj Ki Baat Show के आज के Highlights | 23 June 2026 | Ram Mandir Donation Row | Lucknow Fire Tragedy
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The State Bank was responsible for counting and accounting of the offerings, but on the temple trust's advice the bank engaged several local people in the counting work.
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| 2026-06-23 |
Aaj Ki Baat Show के आज के Highlights | 23 June 2026 | Ram Mandir Donation Row | Lucknow Fire Tragedy
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The SIT's 101-page report states that staff for counting the offerings were recruited arbitrarily, on the recommendation of trust members, with local acquaintances given the work.
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| 2026-06-23 |
Aaj Ki Baat Show के आज के Highlights | 23 June 2026 | Ram Mandir Donation Row | Lucknow Fire Tragedy
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According to the anchor's information, the SIT report does not name any senior Ram Mandir Trust official — neither Champat Rai, nor Anil Mishra, nor Gopal Rao is mentioned or accused.
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| 2026-06-23 |
Aaj Ki Baat Show के आज के Highlights | 23 June 2026 | Ram Mandir Donation Row | Lucknow Fire Tragedy
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Trust secretary Champat Rai appeared on stage for the first time since the controversy, at a flag-hoisting ceremony, and all trust-linked persons under suspicion appeared together on stage.
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| 2026-06-23 |
Aaj Ki Baat Show के आज के Highlights | 23 June 2026 | Ram Mandir Donation Row | Lucknow Fire Tragedy
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The SIT formed to investigate the theft of offerings at the Ram Mandir submitted its preliminary investigation report to the government today.
Ram Mandir theft SIT
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| 2026-06-19 |
Aaj Ki Baat Show के आज के Highlights | 19 June 2026 | Ram Mandir Donation Row | CM Yogi | Meloni
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The anchor characterizes the Ram Mandir's donation-handling arrangements as having been left entirely to chance, with supervisors turning a blind eye and rules being disregarded.
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| 2026-06-19 |
Aaj Ki Baat Show के आज के Highlights | 19 June 2026 | Ram Mandir Donation Row | CM Yogi | Meloni
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The District Magistrate of Ayodhya had yesterday sent a message to the Ram Mandir Trust asking that someone other than Champat Rai be sent to the temple during the Chief Minister's visit.
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| 2026-06-19 |
Aaj Ki Baat Show के आज के Highlights | 19 June 2026 | Ram Mandir Donation Row | CM Yogi | Meloni
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Whenever Yogi Adityanath visited Ram Lalla, trust general secretary Champat Rai used to accompany him, but during today's Ayodhya visit Champat Rai was absent as Yogi kept his distance from him.
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| 2026-06-19 |
Aaj Ki Baat Show के आज के Highlights | 19 June 2026 | Ram Mandir Donation Row | CM Yogi | Meloni
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After visiting Ram Lalla today, Yogi Adityanath said an SIT investigation is underway into the donation theft and that no one involved, however powerful, will be spared.
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| 2026-06-19 |
Aaj Ki Baat Show के आज के Highlights | 19 June 2026 | Ram Mandir Donation Row | CM Yogi | Meloni
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Yogi Adityanath said today that Ram devotees should be patient for just 15 days, and within 15 days the truth of the donation theft will be fully revealed.
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| 2026-06-19 |
Aaj Ki Baat Show के आज के Highlights | 19 June 2026 | Ram Mandir Donation Row | CM Yogi | Meloni
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Although CCTV cameras, supervisors, and counting rules were in place at the Ram Mandir, the CCTV cameras were switched off intermittently during the counting of donations.
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