| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-29 |
Police arrested a man at Mumbai's Muharram procession who was found with 3,000 capsules and 50 kg of zinc phosphide, a rat poison.
Muharram poison plot
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-29 |
The police investigation remains limited to a few employees even though the SIT report has raised questions about Champat Rai and Anil Mishra, suggesting they are being given special leniency.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-29 |
Among the arrested accused, Ramashankar alias Tinnu Yadav and Manish Yadav were close to Champat Rai, while Lavkush Mishra and Anukalp Mishra are relatives of Anil Mishra.
accused-trust connections
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-29 |
Trust office-bearers Champat Rai and Anil Mishra have resigned from their posts and been questioned by police, but despite their suspicious role no legal action has been taken against them.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-29 |
More than 15 countries have their own versions of the Ramayana and about 2,000 temples worldwide are dedicated to Lord Ram, yet no country has a controversy over temple offerings like the one in India.
global Ram temples contrast
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-29 |
Police are not bringing the accused out of jail and are producing them in court via video conferencing, largely because the people of Ayodhya are extremely angry with them.
public anger at accused
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-29 |
In several countries around the world, people who betrayed public trust have been made to apologize to the nation on television to restore public trust.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-29 |
Legally, if no lawyer is available the court will appoint one through the Legal Services Authority; in past cases where lawyers boycotted the accused — such as 26/11 terrorist Ajmal Kasab and the Delhi Nirbhaya gang-rape case — the accused still received legal aid.
legal aid precedent
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-29 |
The Ayodhya Bar Association has announced that no lawyer will represent the accused, and any lawyer who does will be fined ₹5 lakh.
lawyer boycott of accused
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-29 |
After these events, many people across the country are debating whether they should stop donating cash and jewellery to temples and instead donate fruits or help the poor.
temple donation debate
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-29 |
Although the theft was detected on 5 June and cash was recovered on video, no FIR was registered at that time.
delayed FIR
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-29 |
A new revelation today: accused Avinash Shukla stole from the temple offerings on 5 June, and after police obtained CCTV footage of the theft, they recovered lakhs of rupees in cash from his house.
CCTV theft evidence
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-29 |
In Uttar Pradesh, known for 'bulldozer justice', no bulldozer action has been taken in this case and the house allegedly built with stolen offerings still stands.
bulldozer justice inaction
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-29 |
The theft of temple offerings was organized, and the stolen money was used to buy land, shops, expensive cars, and expensive phones.
organized theft ring
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-29 |
Lavkush Mishra's brother-in-law Anukalp Mishra worked at the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust, and their close relative Anil Mishra is one of the Trust's 15 members.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-29 |
Official tehsildar court land records dated 6 March 2026 show the final mutation order for the land in the name of Supriya Mishra, wife of Lavkush Mishra of Meenapur.
land records evidence
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-29 |
Lavkush Mishra, who counted the donation-box offerings at the Ram temple, bought this land in his wife Supriya Mishra's name for a total of ₹8,80,000.
benami land purchase
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-29 |
People with salaries of only ₹15,000-20,000 were buying large plots of land and building big mansions, allegedly funded by stolen temple offerings.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-29 |
A mansion on the Ayodhya-Lucknow highway in Sohawal tehsil is being built with money from the theft of ₹80 crore in temple donations.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-29 |
The offerings made at the Ram Mandir — the temple for which kar sevaks gave their lives — were stolen.
temple offering theft
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-29 |
The Kothari brothers from Kolkata were shot dead by Uttar Pradesh police on 2 November 1990 because they were kar sevaks marching to the Ram Janmabhoomi site in Ayodhya.
kar sevak killings 1990
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| Arnab Goswami |
2026-06-29 |
Panelist Kapil Madan is usually pro-Congress in his positions.
panelist Congress bias
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| Arnab Goswami |
2026-06-29 |
The Congress-leaning lawyer's explanation of the Supreme Court's refusal (attributing it to court vacations) is the usual spin doctoring.
panelist spin accusation
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| Arnab Goswami |
2026-06-29 |
The political temperature in Uttar Pradesh is at boiling point; what started as a temple donation theft case in Ayodhya has exploded into an all-out high-stakes political war.
Ram Mandir donation theft
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| Rajat Sharma |
2026-06-29 |
Going by Yogi Adityanath's record so far, he will not spare anyone and will certainly ensure the culprits are punished.
Yogi's punishment record
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