Claim
According to the Trust deed, any trustee may resign but must give one month's notice.
“कोई भी ट्रस्टी इस्तीफा दे सकता है। लेकिन उसे एक महीने का नोटिस देना पड़ेगा।”▶ Watch source segment
Rationale
The claim asserts a specific provision of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust deed — that any trustee may resign with one month's notice. The trust deed is not publicly available, and no fact-checker (AltNews, BOOM, Factly, Newschecker, PIB) or primary source published its resignation clause as of 2026-07-02. Contemporaneous reporting on the trust's rules describes a different mechanism — resignations require acceptance by a two-thirds majority of the trustee board — and no outlet corroborates a one-month notice requirement; in practice Champat Rai's resignation was processed within a day. The specific deed clause quoted on air therefore cannot be confirmed, and available secondary reporting does not support it.
Evidence
- https://www.timesnowhindi.com/india/ram-mandir-donation-theft-row-can-a-trustee-resign-at-will-know-the-legal-rules-and-resignation-process-article-154788191 Times Now Navbharat explainer (June 2026, amid the Ram Janmabhoomi Trust resignations the show was covering) states explicitly that the Trust Deed is not publicly available; it describes resignation as governed by the Indian Trusts Act, 1882 and deed permissions, with no mention of a one-month notice clause. ✓ reachable · archived
- https://hindi.dynamitenews.com/uttar-pradesh/ayodhya-ram-mandir-trust-resignation-champat-rai-anil-mishra Report on the trust's rules says a resignation cannot simply take effect — acceptance requires a two-thirds majority vote of the trustee board — and mentions no one-month notice requirement. ✓ reachable · archived
- https://www.indiatvnews.com/uttar-pradesh/ram-mandir-donation-theft-case-temple-trust-accepts-champat-rai-s-resignation-issues-statement-2026-06-27-1046332 In practice, the trust accepted Champat Rai's resignation within a day of submission (June 27, 2026), with process centered on board acceptance rather than any notice period served by the trustee. ✓ reachable · archived
- https://www.aninews.in/news/national/politics/ram-janambhoomi-trust-general-secy-champat-rai-and-trustee-anil-mishra-resign-amidst-ram-temple-embezzlement-row-sources20260626133501/ Wire-agency context: the broadcast coincided with Champat Rai and Anil Mishra resigning from the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust amid the donation-theft case, the trust dispute the claim refers to. ✓ reachable · archived