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Champat Rai gets SIT clean chit, trust member Anil Mishra cleared too: What the SIT report means for the Ram Mandir donation theft controversy

OpIndia Staff -
The probe is still being carried out by a second SIT that was constituted under the supervision of the Supreme Court.
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Ram Mandir donations external audit confirms Rs 3,300 crore fully accounted for

Shraddha Pandey -
Amidst the criticism, speculations and politics around the alleged ‘Chanda Chori’, an external audit has found that Rs 3,300 crore of the donations made by devotees to Ram Mandir are fully accounted for.
Crime

UP police probe terror angle after saffron kurta with ‘Jai Shri Ram’ found from room of paramedical student Sarfaraz after his arrest over bomb-making...

OpIndia Staff -
Investigation into a suspicious note found at Ayodhya Medical College expanded to Balrampur, where police questioned detained student Sarfaraz’s family.
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Ram Mandir donation theft: Supreme Court orders UP government to re-form SIT a day after old SIT filed status report, urges petitioners not to...

Shraddha Pandey -
During the hearing, the court ordered the re-formation of a Special Investigation Team (SIT). CJI Surya Kant said that the new SIT should be led by an IPS officer and that the Ram Mandir donation theft probe can reach a decisive stage.
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Uttar Pradesh: Police detain 3 after viral video shows them eating mutton and drinking beer on a boat in the sacred Saryu river

OpIndia Staff -
According to the police, the act violated the sanctity of the Saryu River and offended devotees' religious sentiments.
Crime

Ayodhya Ram Mandir donation theft: SIT probe widens as 30 more counting staff under scanner, says report

OpIndia Staff -
The Ram Temple donation theft probe has expanded to check the assets of 30 more cash-counting employees.
Opinions

Why Ayodhya’s ‘compensatory mosque’ is struggling for funds: The ‘Babri Zinda Hai’ mindset behind the Muslim community’s disinterest

Shraddha Pandey -
It has been reported that the alternate mosque project in Ayodhya has been drastically scaled back due to a severe funding crunch and lack of support from the Muslim community.
Opinions

Ayodhya donation scam: It is not the missing crores, but the missing accountability that hurts

Shraddha Pandey -
The theft was petty; the negligence and, to a great extent, complicity were grand. Recommendation-based appointments, relaxing of frisking rules, little to no implementation of the pocket-less uniforms rule, and deliberate neglect of the irregularities enabled the theft for months before the lid blew off in June this year.
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‘Even chameleons would be embarrassed’: CM Yogi slams SP, Congress over Ayodhya Ram Mandir donation row, asks why they stayed silent on Waqf land

OpIndia Staff -
CM Yogi accused Samajwadi Party and Congress of “making a mockery of Hindu faith”, and questioned why these parties remained silent when hectares of land were sold off in the name of ‘waqf’.
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151 kg gold-lettered Ramcharitmanas missing? VHP releases video proof dismissing allegations of former Home Secretary S Laxmi Narayan

OpIndia Staff -
The VHP has released a video of the gold-plated copy of the Ramcharitmanas donated by S Laxmi Narayan. The Hindu rights group also questioned the timing of Narayan’s allegations as there is already a controversy ongoing about the embezzlement of Ayodhya Ram Mandir donations.
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