Claim
Anukalp Mishra, Lavkush Mishra, Avinash Shukla, Karunesh Pandey and Ramashankar Mishra were all put on cash-counting duty on Anil Mishra's recommendation, and SBI employees assigned there were even tenants in Anil Mishra's house.
“अनुकल्प मिश्रा, लवकुश मिश्रा, अविनाश शुक्ला, करुणेश पांडे और रमाशंकर मिश्रा इन सबको अनिल मिश्रा की सिफारिश पर ही गिनती के काम में लगाया गया था। हैरानी की बात तो यह है कि स्टेट बैंक ऑफ इंडिया के कर्मचारी भी अनिल मिश्रा के घर पर ही किराएदार थे।”▶ Watch source segment
Rationale
Both components of the claim match credible mainstream reporting on the Ayodhya Ram Mandir donation-theft case. The five named individuals were among the arrested cash-counting staff, and trustee Anil Mishra had been granted supreme authority over cash counting and hiring, interviewing/vetting the counters — supporting that they were placed on his recommendation. Separately, Scroll confirms an SBI official and his family were tenants in trustee Anil Mishra's Amaniganj house. Confidence is not higher because these are allegations under an active SIT investigation rather than judicially proven facts, no single source explicitly ties each named person's placement to Anil Mishra's 'recommendation', and the tenant detail concerns one SBI official/family rather than 'employees' plural.
Evidence
- https://scroll.in/article/1093977/an-sbi-manager-questioned-in-ayodhya-theft-case-was-a-tenant-of-ram-temple-trustee Scroll reports an SBI official (Addikya Raghu Ram Sagar) and his family live as tenants in temple trustee Anil Mishra's house in Faizabad's Amaniganj locality; the official was questioned by the SIT — directly corroborates the 'SBI employees were tenants in Anil Mishra's house' part. ✓ reachable · archived
- https://www.tv9hindi.com/india/ram-mandir-donation-theft-champat-rai-had-granted-supreme-powers-to-anil-mishra-10-employee-hired-for-cash-counting-3837919.html TV9 reports Champat Rai gave trustee Anil Mishra 'supreme'/unlimited authority over cash counting and staff hiring; candidates were sent to Anil Mishra, who interviewed them and 10 new people were engaged for counting — supports that the counters were placed via Anil Mishra. ✓ reachable · archived
- https://www.businesstoday.in/latest/trends/story/ram-mandir-donation-scam-sbi-flagged-cash-counting-staff-3-months-before-arrests-540273-2026-07-01 Business Today confirms Avinash Shukla, Anukalp Mishra, Lavkush Mishra, Karunesh Pandey and Ramashankar Mishra were among the arrested cash-counting staff (six of eight were outsourced SBI counters), and that SBI had flagged the counters. ✓ reachable · archived
- https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/ayodhya-ram-temple-donation-theft-case-sit-probes-sbi-role-questions-officials-over-alleged-lapses Free Press Journal reports the SIT is probing that counting personnel were appointed through recommendations and without proper police verification, consistent with the 'sifarish' (recommendation) allegation. ✓ reachable · archived