| Chitra Tripathi |
2026-06-30 |
Champat Rai had actually gone to the police station on 27 May to file an FIR against the accused.
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| Chitra Tripathi |
2026-06-30 |
On 27 May police caught six accused, taking Tinnu Yadav, Anukalp Mishra, and Karunesh Pandey into custody, and also apprehending Lavkush and Avinash Shukla.
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| Chitra Tripathi |
2026-06-30 |
According to ABP News sources, the offering-theft case had already come to light on 27 May, and by that same day it was known who the culprits were.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
Former assistant priest Unnikrishnan Potti has been arrested, while former executive officer Murari Babu, company owner Pankaj Bhandari, former board president and CPM leader P.S. Prashant, former board member and CPI leader A. Ajay Kumar, chief priest Kandararu Rajeevaru, and former commissioner Rejilal have been named as accused.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
The SIT claims that in 2023 the accused again planned to send the idols to Chennai for re-plating, with the aim of destroying evidence of the 2019 gold theft rather than repair.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
So far, approximately 4 to 5 kilograms of gold have been found to be missing from the Sabarimala temple.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
The investigation found that gold was missing not only from the dwarapalaka idols but also from their bases and the temple door frames.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
Within a few months the new gold plating began peeling off, exposing the copper underneath, which raised suspicion.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
When the idols returned from Chennai to the temple, they were not even weighed.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
Investigating agencies allege that in Chennai the old, heavy gold layers were stolen from the idols and replaced with new, thinner gold layers.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
The SIT and the High Court believe the mislabeling was not an ordinary mistake but part of a large conspiracy.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
In official records, the gold-clad idols were recorded merely as copper plates.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
It is alleged that permission to send the idols to Chennai was granted at the behest of former assistant priest Unnikrishnan Potti.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
The Kerala High Court today ordered FIRs to be registered against CPM and CPI leaders in the Sabarimala temple gold theft case.
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| Arnab Goswami |
2026-06-30 |
In the Ram Mandir donation case, the SIT has already arrested eight people, Champat Rai and Anil Mishra have resigned, and the Ayodhya Bar Association has refused to defend the accused.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
₹80 lakh has been recovered so far in the offerings-theft case.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
It is alleged that the man whose lavish bungalow was shown in the report bought land for ₹2 crore and immediately sold it to the temple trust for ₹18 crore.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
In the 2021 land dispute, the temple trust was accused of buying land from Ravi Mohan Tiwari and Sultan Ansari for ₹18 crore that had just been purchased for around ₹2 crore, with trust money allegedly siphoned off.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
Despite the serious allegations against Champat Rai, his name is not in the FIR.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
It is alleged that because of Champat Rai, the people counting the offerings were neither properly frisked nor monitored, as if some people in the temple complex were above the law.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
According to the channel's sources, Champat Rai already knew that the people he had brought into the Ram Mandir on trust were the ones stealing by exploiting his name, but he did little beyond expressing regret.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
Wireless department officer Arjun Dev had been in charge of CCTV monitoring at the Ram Mandir since 2009, going 17 years without a transfer, with multiple transfer orders issued but withdrawn each time.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
Many people allege that Champat Rai repeatedly blocked the transfer of the officer who monitored the CCTV cameras in the counting room.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
Three days later, on June 8, Champat Rai was telling the media that no theft of offerings had taken place.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
On June 5, police recovered ₹5 lakh in cash from the house of Avinash Shukla, who counted the temple offerings, but even then Champat Rai did not file an FIR.
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