| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
Despite CCTV surveillance, the temple had several blind spots — places the cameras could not see.
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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 |
The first rule was that employees counting the donations had to wear clothes without any pockets.
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
The irregularity in the temple donation theft occurred not at one but at multiple different levels.
temple donation theft
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
India's leaders believed that forgiving Pakistan and growing closer to it would please Indian Muslims and win their votes, and this appeasement politics continued in India until 2014.
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2026-07-01 |
Before 2014, the same 'big brother' narrative was applied to majority Hindus in India, who were told to forgive every mistake of minority Muslims and bear the responsibility for secularism.
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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.
Anil Mishra suspicion
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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.
suspect QR donation box
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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.
Ram Mandir donation theft
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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).
Ram Mandir donation theft
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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.
Ram Mandir donation theft
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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.
donation theft method
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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.
Ram Mandir donation theft
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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.
Ram Mandir donation theft
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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.
Ram Mandir donation theft
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
Police recovered the largest haul from accused Avinash Shukla, who logged the donations register: cash, 10,121 US dollars, 169.54 grams of silver-like metal, an 8.14-gram chain and a 3.44-gram gold ring.
Ram Mandir donation theft
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
For the first time, police have disclosed exactly how much stolen money was recovered from each of the arrested accused in the Ram Mandir donation theft case.
Ram Mandir donation theft
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
Sarla Bhat was murdered solely because she was a Kashmiri Hindu (Kashmiri Pandit) who refused to leave Kashmir and continued her work there.
targeted Hindu killing
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
Sarla Bhat was unmarried and one of the few Kashmiri Pandit women who chose to continue working in Kashmir rather than leave.
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2026-07-01 |
Kashmiri terrorists deliberately sought to terrorize Hindus (Kashmiri Pandits) into fleeing Kashmir, and that is what eventually happened.
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
At that time in Kashmir, Kashmiri Pandits were routinely killed on similar false accusations.
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
Until 2014, India's leaders practiced appeasement politics, forgiving Pakistan in the belief that Indian Muslims would be pleased and vote for them.
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