| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
According to temple trust sources, daily offerings at the Ram Mandir have risen from ₹10–12 lakh per day earlier to ₹20–24 lakh per day now, so claims that devotee numbers have fallen after the theft are wrong.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
The day before the disputed structure was demolished in 1992, L.K. Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and Brahmadutt Dwivedi held a meeting at trust member Anil Mishra's house.
1992 demolition meeting
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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 Ravi Mohan Tiwari is related by marriage to former Ayodhya mayor Rishikesh Upadhyay.
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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 trust's MOU with State Bank of India mandated joint presence of trust and bank officials for opening donation boxes, a dress code for counting staff, and monthly rotation of bank officials, but none of these conditions were followed.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
Wireless department officer Arjun Dev had been monitoring CCTV cameras at the Ram Mandir since 2009, going 17 years without a transfer, with multiple transfer orders repeatedly withdrawn, allegedly at Champat Rai's intervention.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
On 5 June, police recovered ₹5 lakh cash from the home of offerings-counter Avinash Shukla, yet Champat Rai filed no FIR, and three days later on 8 June he told the media that no theft of offerings had happened.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
Between 27 April and 5 June, theft was captured 70 times on three CCTV cameras, yet Champat Rai continued to deny any theft had occurred.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
In November 2022, before his death, Ram Mandir chief priest Mahant Satyendra Das publicly questioned Champat Rai's working style, naming Tinnu Yadav, Gopal Rao, Anil Mishra and Champat Rai and asking who the 'owner' of the temple was.
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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 just on the boundary wall, and ₹4 crore on guest house maintenance in 11 months.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
400 private security personnel worked in the temple's security on monthly salaries of ₹19,000–24,000, and most of them were relatives and acquaintances of Champat Rai's close associates, hired on his recommendation.
temple security nepotism
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
On 19 February 2020, Champat Rai was given the responsibility of general secretary of the Ram Mandir Trust.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
Champat Rai was born in 1946 in Bijnor district, Uttar Pradesh, worked as a college professor, and was jailed during the 1975 Emergency due to his RSS association.
Champat Rai profile
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
In the Sarla Bhatt murder case in Kashmir, it took 36 years just for the chargesheet to be filed.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
A Pune trial court sentenced a 65-year-old man to death within just 60 days for the rape and murder of a 3-year-old girl.
child rape-murder verdict
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
In Delhi, an alleged scam of ₹600 crore took place in the procurement of government medical equipment and medicines, and an FIR has now been registered.
Delhi health scam
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
4 to 5 kilograms of gold was stolen from Kerala's Sabarimala temple, and the Kerala High Court today ordered a case to be registered against CPM and CPI leaders for complicity.
Sabarimala gold theft
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
Asaduddin Owaisi's party gave ₹55 lakh in financial help to fight the Babri Masjid legal case.
Owaisi Babri funding
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
Champat Rai had known about the theft of temple offerings for several months but never himself filed a police complaint.
offering theft complaint
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-30 |
Ram Mandir Trust members, unlike governments elected for 5-year terms, were appointed for indefinite terms with no fixed tenure.
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| Chitra Tripathi |
2026-06-30 |
People who hold power or high office but do not work for public welfare and take bribes for self-interest are all corrupt in the eyes of society.
corruption in high office
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| Navika Kumar |
2026-06-29 |
In the interview Sunil Shetty only said the child feeds an imaginary laddoo to the Prime Minister's photo; wanting to regulate what a 15-month-old does is absurd.
Shetty granddaughter row
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| Navika Kumar |
2026-06-29 |
Not sparing a 15-month-old is a new low for the Congress party, and there is a meltdown in the opposition ranks over praise for Modi.
Shetty granddaughter row
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| Navika Kumar |
2026-06-29 |
The opposition ecosystem's reaction — hunting for spelling mistakes on the citation over one award — reflects a specially reserved hatred for the Prime Minister.
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| Navika Kumar |
2026-06-29 |
When the world chooses to recognize and honour Prime Minister Modi, the opposition cannot stomach it.
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