| Chitra Tripathi |
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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| Chitra Tripathi |
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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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
Outsourced workers who have no connection to the temple's traditions and no devotion to the temple often commit corruption and do not care whether they are stealing from a temple, a house, or an office.
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
CCTV footage also revealed that on several occasions bundles of cash were handed to certain people instead of being deposited directly in the bank, violating the prescribed deposit procedure.
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
According to the investigation, donation-counting employees often stood directly in front of camera lenses in a way that blocked the camera from properly recording events.
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
Many employees began counting donations wearing normal clothes; the no-pockets dress rule was broken and people started coming in clothes with pockets.
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
Some people living in India wrote this letter jointly with their Pakistani counterparts, thereby reopening the 'peace shop'.
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
The Indian signatories of the letter are batting for Pakistan rather than India; they appear to be Pakistan sympathizers whom Pakistan has now reactivated.
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
The letter demands restarting trade and travel between Attari and Wagah, the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus service, the Delhi-Lahore bus service, the Samjhauta Express, the Kargil-Skardu route, and commercial airline services between India and Pakistan.
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
A handful of people in India and Pakistan run a 'peace shop' in the name of good India-Pakistan relations, which was shut after Operation Sindoor and has now reopened with new packaging.
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
The letter urging talks with Pakistan does not mention even once how people in Pahalgam were killed after being asked their religion.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
Surat police busted a Gurugram call centre where 150 women and 20 men posed as fake health experts and doctors, using a weight-loss script to defraud people — mostly women — of about ₹80 crore, operating as Cureus Science and Wellness Private Limited.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
Eight people were burnt alive when a Haridwar-to-Indore sleeper bus caught fire on the Delhi–Mumbai Expressway after colliding with a truck; the anchor asserts the real cause was dishonesty, because cigarette cartons stashed to evade GST fuelled the blaze.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
Anil Mishra was a witness in every land deal in which the temple trust purchased land at inflated prices, and per the SIT his personal assets have grown rapidly in recent years.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
When the State Bank of India demanded replacement of the donation-counting staff, Anil Mishra opposed it most strongly and got the replacement process halted.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
Anil Mishra got the largest number of temple trust hires — 125 people, mostly his relatives and acquaintances — which is double the number hired on the recommendations of Champat Rai and Gopal Rao.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
According to sources, police and the SIT most strongly suspect trust member Anil Mishra, and all eight arrested accused have allegedly named him in the theft.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
The channel's reporter Samad Srivastava recorded footage at a yoga centre in Kaushalpuri — where accused Avinash Shukla lived with his brother — showing a donation chest labelled 'Ram Rajya Kosh' fitted with a Paytm QR code that led to a donation option.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
The recovery details are now officially recorded in police documents, which the anchor asserts proves the theft of Ram Mandir donations took place.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
From the seventh accused, Ramashankar Mishra, police recovered ₹7,32,170 in cash, two white-metal coins and a 24.72-gram toe-ring (bichhua).
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
Accused Ramashankar 'Tinnu' Yadav was Champat Rai's driver and was given a job at the Ram Mandir by Champat Rai; ₹1 lakh cash was recovered from his hostel near Ganga Hospital in Ayodhya.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
The alleged theft method was to insert extra ₹500 notes into bundles of 100 notes during counting — since vouchers only recorded the number of bundles, not their exact value — and later steal the extra notes.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
The fourth accused, Lavkush Mishra — also a relative of Anil Mishra and brother-in-law of Anukalp Mishra — had ₹14,25,000 recovered from him, including 2,850 notes of ₹500.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
The third accused, Anukalp Mishra, a relative of temple trust member Anil Mishra who was present in the counting room, had approximately ₹16,82,040 in cash recovered, including 2,853 notes of ₹500 denomination.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
The second accused, Karunesh Pandey, who counted the donation cash, had cash recovered from him by police including 500-rupee and 200-rupee notes and coins.
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