| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
A Pune fast-track POCSO court sentenced a 65-year-old man to death on 29 June, within 60 days, for the rape and murder of a 3-year-old girl, while 4.98 crore cases remain pending in Indian courts.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
WhatsApp's new username feature will not change core rules — a mobile number remains mandatory for every account, there will be no public username directory, and an optional four-digit username key can restrict who contacts you.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
During a two-day anti-encroachment bulldozer drive in Rajkot, Gujarat on 23–24 February, officials spent ₹27 lakh on tea and snacks.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
In a Delhi health procurement scam, the Anti-Corruption Branch arrested DGHS director general Dr. Vatsala Agrawal and deputy controller of accounts Neeraj Chopra; portable X-ray machines worth ₹1 lakh were bought for ₹33 lakh each, with ₹148 crore spent on 448 machines that should have cost ₹45 crore.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
What happened at Ram Mandir is a matter of national dishonesty, and stopping it requires fundamental change in how temples are governed and structured.
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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 gold theft case, including a former temple board president and board member.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
In 1998-99 industrialist Vijay Mallya donated 30.291 kg of gold to Sabarimala temple, and investigations have now found roughly 4–5 kg of that gold missing after it was allegedly stolen during 2019 re-plating in Chennai.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
Claims that devotee numbers at Ram Mandir have fallen after the theft are completely false; per trust sources, daily offerings have risen from ₹10–12 lakh earlier to ₹20–24 lakh now.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
In the 2021 land dispute, the temple trust was accused of buying land worth ₹2 crore from Ravi Mohan Tiwari and Sultan Ansari for ₹18 crore, and Tiwari is related by marriage to former Ayodhya mayor Rishikesh Upadhyay.
land purchase scandal
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
At the trust executive committee meeting on 6 July, Champat Rai and Anil Mishra will be called to present their side, and a final decision will be taken on their resignations.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
The temple's MoU with State Bank of India for counting offerings — requiring joint presence of trust and bank officials, a dress code, and monthly rotation of bank staff — was not being followed on any condition.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
Wireless department officer Arjun Dev had monitored the Ram Mandir CCTV cameras since 2009 — 17 years without transfer — and multiple transfer orders for him were repeatedly withdrawn, allegedly because Champat Rai blocked them.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
On 5 June police recovered ₹5 lakh in cash from the house of offerings-counter Avinash Shukla, yet Champat Rai filed no FIR, and three days later on 8 June he told the media no theft of offerings had happened.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
Even after theft was caught 70 times on three CCTV cameras between 27 April and 5 June, Champat Rai kept denying that any theft had occurred.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
One week of hidden-camera recordings showed that employees stealing offerings would stand in front of the CCTV cameras during counting to block the view.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
According to the SIT investigation and the channel's findings, Champat Rai had known about the offerings theft for many months.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
No case has been registered against Champat Rai so far, nor have any official charges been made against him.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
Ram Mandir chief priest Mahant Satyendra Das, before his death, publicly questioned Champat Rai's functioning in November 2022, naming Tinnu Yadav, Gopal Rao, Anil Mishra and Champat Rai as acting like 'owners' of the temple.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
₹4 crore was spent on guest house maintenance in just 11 months, and all this expenditure happened under Champat Rai's supervision.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
According to the temple trust, ₹152 crore was spent on temple complex construction between 1 April 2025 and 28 February 2026, including ₹87 crore on the boundary wall alone.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
In 1990, Islamic terrorists acting at Pakistan's behest were taking over the Kashmir valley, seizing the homes and property of Kashmiri Hindu Pandits and killing those who refused to leave, as in nurse Sarla Bhatt's abduction and murder, for which a 737-page chargesheet naming Yasin Malik and four others was filed only after 36 years.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
During a two-day anti-encroachment bulldozer drive in Rajkot, Gujarat on 23–24 February, officials spent ₹27 lakh on tea and snacks, including over 21,000 cups of tea and hundreds of plates of snacks.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
In the Delhi health scam, the Central Procurement Agency bought portable X-ray machines worth ₹1 lakh for ₹33 lakh each, spending ₹148 crore on 448 machines that should have cost ₹45 crore, and DGHS chief Dr. Vatsala Agrawal and accounts officer Neeraj Chopra have been arrested.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
When Sabarimala's gold-clad dwarapalaka idols were sent to Chennai in 2019, official records described them merely as copper plates, and investigators allege the heavy old gold layers were stolen and replaced with thinner new plating.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
In 1998–99, industrialist Vijay Mallya donated a total of 30.291 kilograms of gold to the Sabarimala temple, which was used for gold-plating parts of the temple.
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