Claim
Ayodhya police were not allowed near the counting room, and the CCTV footage of the counting room was not made available to the police control room even though footage of the rest of the complex was.
“अयोध्या की पुलिस का काम था फ्रिस्किंग करना। पर उसे तो काउंटिंग रूम के आसपास फटकने की भी इजाजत नहीं दी गई... जहां नोटों की काउंटिंग होनी थी उस कमरे की फुटेज पुलिस के कंट्रोल रूम को अवेलेबल नहीं कराई जाती थी।”▶ Watch source segment
Rationale
The claim tracks the SIT interim-report findings in the Ram Mandir donation-theft case. Independent mainstream reporting confirms that entry/exit frisking was the police security role, that security personnel were not deployed in/near the counting room (whose keys and access were held by trust and bank officials), and that the counting room had a specific CCTV/footage gap while the rest of the complex was covered and reviewed. The precise wording 'footage not made available to the police control room' is stated most explicitly by India TV (Rajat Sharma's own outlet), but its substance is corroborated by the SIT findings reported across independent outlets. No fact-checker has debunked it. Rated accurate with moderate confidence given the specific footage-availability framing rests partly on the anchor's own channel.
Evidence
- https://www.indiatvnews.com/news/india/opinion-the-full-story-of-loot-in-ram-mandir-who-did-it-how-much-was-looted-where-has-the-jewellery-gone-2026-07-01-1046791 States directly: 'It was the job of Ayodhya police to frisk them, but policemen were not allowed to come near the counting room' and 'CCTV footage for the entire temple premises, except the counting room, was made available to police' — the same assertion Rajat Sharma made on air. ✓ reachable · archived
- https://www.deccanherald.com/amp/story/india/uttar-pradesh/ram-mandir-fund-theft-sit-finds-large-scale-procedural-violations-4054410 Reports the SIT interim report's procedural lapses: 'lack of deployment of security personnel during the counting of cash', no frisking of counting staff on entry/exit, and failure to preserve counting-room CCTV footage — independently corroborating that police were absent from the counting room and had no surveillance visibility into it. ✓ reachable · archived
- https://www.outlookindia.com/national/ram-temple-donation-theft-cctv-footage-rs-80-lakh-recovery-and-hiring-process-under-probe Confirms a counting-room-specific surveillance gap: CCTV monitoring of the counting area was ineffective/unmonitored, while footage elsewhere in the complex was reviewed and used as evidence, consistent with differential availability. ✓ reachable · archived
- https://www.tv9hindi.com/state/uttar-pradesh/ayodhya-ram-mandir-donation-theft-case-sit-investigation-finds-forty-personnel-guilty-security-changes-3834130.html SIT found ~40 personnel including police/PAC jawans posted outside (not inside) the counting room culpable, and that counting-room CCTV footage had been deleted; frisking at entry/exit was only introduced after the scam — implying it was not properly enforced before, and access/footage of the counting room was controlled by the trust, not police. ✓ reachable · archived