| Chitra Tripathi |
2026-06-28 |
With UP assembly elections approaching, the political battle over the Ram Mandir donation theft has intensified: Akhilesh Yadav is accusing the BJP of shady dealings under the cover of religion, while CM Yogi Adityanath is branding him anti-Sanatan.
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| Chitra Tripathi |
2026-06-28 |
A video has emerged of arrested accused Anukalp Mishra hosting a Bhagwat Katha in his village on which he spent lakhs of rupees, with Champat Rai Bansal present on the stage.
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| Chitra Tripathi |
2026-06-28 |
According to sources, a big name associated with the trust has not yet been given a clean chit and his role is being deeply investigated.
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| Chitra Tripathi |
2026-06-28 |
According to sources, the SIT is also investigating the roles of the control-room in-charge, security personnel, PAC, and concerned police officers in the Ram Mandir security setup.
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| Chitra Tripathi |
2026-06-28 |
The investigation found extensive attempts to delete evidence of the theft and dispose of the money; the accused wiped WhatsApp chats and other data from their phones, and some phones were reportedly formatted.
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| Chitra Tripathi |
2026-06-28 |
More than 30 people from Tinnu Yadav's network are on the radar of the police and the SIT.
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| Chitra Tripathi |
2026-06-28 |
According to sources, the SIT probe found a huge rise in several suspects' financial worth — some donation thieves' wealth grew 50-fold, others' up to 100-fold — with suspicious assets like land and hotels under scrutiny.
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| Chitra Tripathi |
2026-06-28 |
UP Police today raided the premises of all eight accused in Ayodhya, recorded family members' statements, and recovered jewellery and documents from Ramshankar Yadav alias Tinnu Yadav's house.
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| Chitra Tripathi |
2026-06-28 |
This straightforwardly means Champat Rai Bansal tried to cover up the donation theft, hide it, and keep the truth from coming out.
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| Chitra Tripathi |
2026-06-28 |
The UP government formed an SIT on June 13, which submitted a preliminary report on June 23; based on it an FIR naming eight accused plus unknown persons was registered on June 25, the eight named accused were arrested the same day, and they were sent to jail on June 26.
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| Chitra Tripathi |
2026-06-28 |
On June 7, Akhilesh Yadav alleged donation theft at Ram Mandir via social media, and the same day Champat Rai issued a statement saying the audit had found nothing noteworthy, thereby denying the theft.
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| Chitra Tripathi |
2026-06-28 |
The police were aware of the matter, but took no legal action on the June 5 cash recovery either.
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| Chitra Tripathi |
2026-06-28 |
Despite the cash recovery on June 5, neither Champat Rai nor the trust filed any complaint.
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| Chitra Tripathi |
2026-06-28 |
As per the claim, on June 5 trust members and police went to Avinash Shukla's premises on Champat Rai's instructions, recovered cash from his house, and police took Shukla away.
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| Chitra Tripathi |
2026-06-28 |
CCTV footage dated June 5, a 24-second video, shows a white car and four people including accused Avinash Shukla and two policemen, with a black bag containing cash recovered from Shukla's house.
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| Chitra Tripathi |
2026-06-28 |
The donation theft case first came to light on June 7, and ABP News' show Janhit was the first to report the Ram Mandir donation theft to the country.
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| Chitra Tripathi |
2026-06-28 |
Despite resigning as general secretary and not being named in the FIR, it will be difficult for Champat Rai Bansal to escape.
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| Chitra Tripathi |
2026-06-28 |
Champat Rai, the trust's key functionary, knew everything about the theft from Ram Mandir donation boxes, and major evidence of this has surfaced today.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
India's pulse imports rose from about 25 lakh tonnes in 2020-21 (demand 277 lakh tonnes vs production 254 lakh tonnes) to 73 lakh tonnes by 2024-25, with import spending nearly quadrupling from ₹11,937 crore to ₹46,428 crore, even though India is the world's largest producer of pulses.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
India imports 56% of the edible oil it consumes.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
The forensic report Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann used to deny involvement in an objectionable viral video is now alleged to be fake and fixed: Punjab Police officers allegedly struck a secret paid deal at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Gurugram to procure it from unlicensed cyber labs, and Haryana Police have arrested two men, Ankit and Arun, who are on 8-day police remand.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
Only three countries in the world — the US, New Zealand and Australia — legally treat a passport as equivalent to proof of citizenship; even top-ranked Singapore does not, so India is not unique in this regard.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
India ranks 80th on the Henley Passport Index with visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to only 56 countries, a fall of six places from its 74th rank before the Modi government.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
As of 2023 only 9.26 crore Indians — about 6.5% of the population — held a passport, 93% of the population has none, and only 35% of passport holders (with around 6 crore never travelling abroad) have actually used theirs.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
Last year 1.39 crore passports were issued in India and about 1.5 crore people received passport services.
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