| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
Lavkush Mishra was previously a car mechanic and was hired to count the temple offerings on a salary of ₹12,000 to ₹15,000.
accused's background
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
Police have already recovered ₹14,25,000 in cash from Lavkush Mishra's house.
cash recovery
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
The land is registered in the name of Lavkush Mishra's wife Supriya; the Ayodhya Development Authority has given her one week to prove there is no illegal encroachment, failing which bulldozer action will follow.
bulldozer ultimatum
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crime |
accurate |
83.0% |
| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
The Ayodhya Development Authority has pasted a notice on accused Lavkush Mishra's under-construction building, stating the house is being built without following regulations.
illegal construction notice
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crime |
accurate |
85.0% |
| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
The administration has begun action on four fronts: recovery of stolen money through raids after arrests, establishing the modus operandi through interrogation, scrutiny of bank accounts and financial transactions, and bulldozer action on illegal properties built with stolen money.
four-front crackdown
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crime |
accurate |
82.0% |
| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
There are eight accused in the Ram Mandir donation theft case (not seven), one of whom is unidentified.
donation theft accused
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crime |
accurate |
70.0% |
| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
CM Yogi is going to settle scores with each of the donation thieves and silence those who make religion-based accusations.
Yogi crackdown pledge
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
The SIT (Special Investigation Team) suddenly arrived at the Ram Mandir again today.
SIT temple probe
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crime |
accurate |
85.0% |
| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
The security company involved provides housekeeping, security and cash logistics services across eight states.
security company profile
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
People with no experience in cash handling were deliberately assigned to count the Ram Mandir offerings, reflecting gross negligence in the temple's management.
management negligence
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
The company's Ayodhya branch chief manager recommended all 22 workers in writing, after which the agency recruited them and sent them to the Ram Mandir without any background verification.
unverified recruitment
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
The arrested cleaning staff belonged to Sainik Security Services Private Limited of Varanasi, which had sent 22 people to the Ram Mandir for housekeeping services, of whom six were put on offerings-counting duty.
outsourced staffing
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
Six housekeeping (cleaning) staff members at the Ram Mandir were assigned to count the offerings, and all six have been arrested by the police.
cleaners counting cash
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
The roughly ₹81 lakh was recovered only because the accused informed police where the money was hidden; Tinnu Yadav had stuffed currency notes into a steel tank in a hostel room.
recovery method
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
Police recovered about ₹20.39 lakh from accused Avinash Shukla, about ₹18 lakh from Karunesh Pandey, about ₹14 lakh from Lavkush Mishra, and further amounts from Anukalp Mishra, Ramashankar Mishra, Tinnu Yadav and Manish Kumar Yadav.
recovery breakdown
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
There are a total of seven accused in the case, one of them unidentified, and a total of approximately ₹80.85 lakh has been recovered so far.
accused and recovery
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
Samajwadi Party leader Ram Gopal Yadav claimed that hundreds of crores of rupees in offerings were stolen, but the anchor's own sources say that such a large amount is false.
theft amount dispute
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
The police and SIT do not yet know the total number of accused in the offerings-theft case, nor even a rough estimate of the total amount stolen.
investigation gaps
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
Champat Rai told police that Tinnu Yadav was an acquaintance without official authority, yet his driver was known to move freely everywhere in the temple premises.
Tinnu Yadav access
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
Champat Rai told police that the staff counting the hundi offerings were appointed by the bank through an outsourced agency, and that rotating their shifts was the bank's responsibility, not the Trust's.
hundi staffing responsibility
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
In police questioning, Champat Rai stated that donation information was shared in Trust meetings but not the details of every transaction.
trust donation records
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crime |
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
People with no experience of the work were the ones assigned to count the Ram Mandir offerings.
counting staff assignment
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
The security company provides housekeeping, security and cash logistics services in eight states.
security company profile
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crime |
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
The company's Ayodhya branch chief manager recommended all 22 workers in writing, after which the agency recruited all of them without any verification and sent them to the Ram Mandir.
unverified recruitment
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crime |
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
The arrested cleaning staff belonged to Sainik Security Services Private Limited of Varanasi, which had sent 22 people to the Ram Mandir for housekeeping services, of whom six were put on donation counting.
outsourcing arrangement
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