| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
In the Meerut case where Muskan Rastogi sealed her husband Saurabh Rajput's body in a blue drum, such fear of blue drums arose that their sale stopped in markets of several cities and red, green and yellow drums began selling instead.
Meerut blue drum case
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
This phenomenon reflects growing 'dark tourism' in Indian society, where people visit the sites of high-profile crimes to see them and post about it on social media.
dark tourism trend
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
Young visitors from Mumbai, Pune and Nashik are showing great curiosity about the incident; some say they had originally planned a trek at Kasara Ghat but changed their plans and decided to come to Lohagad after hearing about the case.
youth crime-site tourism
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
According to Lohagad fort staff, many tourists are now directly asking them where the spot is from which Siya pushed Ketan.
tourists seeking murder spot
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
This year the rains arrived late, so tourist numbers were low in June, but after the Ketan murder people's inclination changed and footfall rose.
post-murder footfall rise
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
According to Sachin Tekawade, president of the Lohagad Visapur Vikas Manch, the number of tourists visiting Lohagad fort has risen sharply in the past few days.
tourist surge at fort
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
Siya Goyal pushed her fiancé Ketan Agrawal into a 400-foot-deep ravine from Lohagad fort; the spot is now being called 'Siya Point' and crowds of tourists are flocking to see it.
Siya Point dark tourism
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
The anchor says he cannot explain why per-devotee donations at Ram Mandir are only ₹20–30 compared to other temples, and demands that this discrepancy be investigated.
donation gap probe demand
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
It is possible that the Ram Mandir actually receives as much in donations as other major temples, but that donation money was being stolen — devotees may be giving ₹100 or more per head rather than ₹20–30.
theft scale hypothesis
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
The temple's system was not preventing theft but effectively helping the thieves; the entire cash management system was unprofessional.
cash management failure
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
Several discrepancies were found in the temple's records and documents for valuables, and an audit of the entire inventory management system is now underway.
inventory record gaps
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
The investigation found that employees entering and exiting the temple were not being strictly frisked by the private security guards, and police suspect cash was taken out of the temple by exploiting this.
lax frisking
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
CCTV footage revealed that on several occasions bundles of cash were handed to certain individuals instead of being deposited directly in the bank.
cash diversion
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
Despite CCTV surveillance, the temple had several blind spots, and per the investigation, counting staff would sometimes stand directly in front of camera lenses to block the view.
CCTV blind spots
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
The rule requiring counting staff to wear pocketless clothing was broken — many employees began counting donations wearing normal clothes with pockets.
dress code lapse
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
Private security guards often collude with criminals for petty gain, and here too the private security guards likely colluded with the accused.
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
According to sources, around 400 private security guards connected to the temple's security arrangements are now also being investigated.
security guards probe
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
The FIR in this case was registered only after the SIT's initial report, and eight people were arrested.
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
The SIT was constituted on June 13 with 15 days to investigate, after which it submitted its initial report to the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh.
SIT investigation timeline
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
UP Police today raided the homes of four of the eight accused, and the Uttar Pradesh government today extended the tenure of the SIT investigating the donation theft by another 15 days.
SIT probe raids
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
The accused are people whose monthly salary is only ₹20,000–25,000 (₹2–2.5 lakh a year), yet lakhs of rupees are being recovered from them.
disproportionate assets
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
Police recovered approximately ₹18 lakh from Karunesh Pandey, ₹16 lakh from Anukalp Mishra, ₹14 lakh from Lavkush Mishra, and ₹7 lakh plus about 25 grams of silver from Ramashankar Mishra.
accused cash recovery
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
From accused Avinash Shukla, police recovered about 1,100 US dollars (worth roughly ₹1 lakh), about 11 grams of gold, and 159 grams of silver, in addition to cash.
accused asset recovery
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
UP Police told the court that it has recovered approximately ₹78 lakh so far from seven accused in the Ram Mandir donation theft case.
donation theft recovery
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
It is alleged that dilapidated buses are registered in faraway states through agents to obtain All India permits, without the buses ever being sent there for fitness inspection.
fitness certificate scam
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