00:00Good evening, you're watching India First. I'm Gaurav Saban. Big story coming in.
00:04It's a major development in the Sri Ramjan Mabhumi Temple alleged donation theft case
00:10based on the preliminary report filed by the special investigation team.
00:16An FIR has finally been registered in the Sri Ramjan Mabhumi donation theft scam.
00:22Eight people have been named in this FIR apart from several unnamed individuals.
00:30Latest information that is coming in, those who have been named in the FIR
00:35are those who were allegedly responsible for counting that money.
00:42Alleged handling of the donation funds, the movement,
00:47some who were apparently not properly following the dress code
00:53at the Sri Ramjan Mabhumi Temple money counting centre.
00:58Avinash Shukla, Anukalp Mishra, Manish Yadav, Ramashankar Mishra,
01:05Tinu Yadav, Tinu Yadav, Ramashankar Yadav.
01:08These are some of the individual sources tell India today they've been named in the FIR.
01:14This is the first information report.
01:16The three-member SIT had travelled to the Sri Ramjan Mabhumi Temple
01:22where the money was collected, where was that money counted,
01:27what was the movement, what was the role of the State Bank of India officials
01:32who had they in turn allegedly sublet or given the process of counting and transportation of money to,
01:41all of that has painstakingly been put together.
01:45The FIR has been filed on the complaint of the Sri Ramjan Mabhumi Teerth Kshetre Trust.
01:53So the trust finally moved to have an FIR on the basis of the SIT preliminary report.
02:01The FIR has been registered under section 306.
02:06This is theft by a clerk or a servant under section 3165.
02:14This is criminal breach of trust by a public servant or banker or merchant or attorneys or their agents
02:21under section 317-4, which is habitually receiving or dealing in stolen property,
02:28knowing it to be stolen.
02:30So now with this FIR and perhaps this is where the agyat or the unknown become extremely interesting.
02:38Who are the unknowns who receive proceeds of crime?
02:42Because this is a huge breach of trust in the faith that devotees had.
02:49They donated to the temple.
02:51And then there are staff and those who are handling the donation who stand accused of pilfering the donation.
02:59And it's not just cash.
03:00Do keep in mind that it is apart from cash,
03:04there is also the allegation that silver, gold and other precious jewels that were donated to the temple,
03:14silver bricks that were donated to the temple,
03:17were they properly audited?
03:19Have they been kept?
03:20Have they been used?
03:22Or is there merit that this was more than just pilferage of just a few hundred or thousand or crore
03:29rupees?
03:30This is a much bigger scam and this investigation hopefully will reveal the truth.
03:35Because section 317-5 is assisting in concealing, disposing of or making away with stolen property.
03:45And that's a very serious charge.
03:47Again, it comes read with section 61 which is criminal conspiracy and section 3-5 which is common intent.
03:56Because it's more than one person.
03:58It's more than one individual.
03:59It's a group of people who came together with a common intent to commit a crime.
04:03And this is a very serious crime.
04:05This actually is sin.
04:06But look at the Bharat Niai Sahita.
04:10When you go with the Dandh Sahita and the Niai Sahita, there was common intent.
04:15Joint criminal liability.
04:17The Uttar Pradesh police say there will be arrests and strict action will be taken.
04:23This preliminary action, the registration of the FIR on the basis of the special investigation team report
04:29is just a very important step one that's been taken so far.
04:33It's been taken on the basis of certain facts that have been revealed in the preliminary investigations.
04:38All eyes now on the SIT returning to Ayodhya.
04:43When the SIT returns to Ayodhya, they will then, and a much bigger team, now gets roped in.
04:49We are told there are officials of multiple departments that are being roped in to carry out a much wider
04:55investigation.
04:56Where did this cash go?
04:58Where did that silver jewelry, gold jewelry, precious jewels, where did all of that proceeds of crime, where did they
05:06go?
05:06Who sold it?
05:07Who bought it?
05:08Did they buy very expensive property with this?
05:11All of that is a matter of investigation.
05:14I quickly want to cut across to my colleague, Maria Shaquille, joining us with the latest on this big story.
05:19Maria, what more do we know on the basis of the SIT?
05:24And FIR has been registered, the details of the accused.
05:28Now you have some people who are named as accused, and then there are some unknown.
05:32What more do we know?
05:33Yes.
05:34So, Gaurav, remember the SIT, the special investigation team of the UP government,
05:39had flagged a number of issues, which had included irregularities in counting,
05:44irregularities in the manner in which the record keeping, which was happening in Ayodhya, of all the offerings,
05:50and even missing footage of the counting process, which was essentially, the CCTV footage were dysfunctional.
05:57Now, what the SIT, post the SIT, remember the SIT report was submitted to the Home Secretary only 48 hours
06:05ago, Gaurav.
06:06And now the details which have come in, and as you pointed out rightly, multiple sections of criminal conspiracy,
06:15but there is also an interesting section, which perhaps the details would emerge in some time from now,
06:21of a possible civil servant.
06:23That's what it says, when we look at this particular section, and I will highlight that for you, Gaurav.
06:29It says, you know, the section is 316.5 of the BNS, which says the criminal breach of trust by
06:38a public servant,
06:40banker, merchant, broker, attorney, or agent.
06:43And the punishment in this particular case is life imprisonment.
06:47Of the eight people whose names are yet to surface, five names are known,
06:53most of them are involved in the counting process.
06:56They were involved in the upkeep of the entire record keeping, which had to happen, that had not happened.
07:03One of them is the, you know, the driver, or should I say the close aide of the General Secretary
07:09of the Trust,
07:11that is Tinnu Yadav.
07:13Tinnu Yadav worked as a driver to Champath Rai, and his name had surfaced much before other names,
07:21and that was there in the public domain.
07:23Other names are also important, that is also of Anukalp Mishra.
07:27His name has been found in the FIR, and that he was allegedly connected to the donation collection,
07:34and also the counting operation, which was happening in the premises of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya.
07:39That's a very important point to make, Mariya.
07:42Caesar's wife has to be above suspicion, but here, the driver of one of the most important men in the
07:49Trust
07:50has been allegedly named in serious wrongdoings, in serious breach of trust.
07:56Stay with me for a moment.
07:57I want to bring in Anurag Bhadoria of the Samajwadi Party, who joins us on the special broadcast.
08:02Anurag Bhadoria, FIR has been charged.
08:09Anurag Bhadoria of the Samajwadi Party, who has been charged with this investigation,
08:14and has been charged with this investigation, and has been charged with this investigation.
08:16In which way, you see this investigation?
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