00:04But the major development that's breaking this evening in the Ram Mandir donation theft or
00:10chanda scam as it's being called the Uttar Pradesh police have finally filed an FIR
00:14after an SIT preliminary report indicated irregularities in this chanda scam or donation
00:20scam eight accused have been named the complaint was filed by Ram Mandir Temple Trust FIR has
00:26been registered under six sections of the VNS cash handlers Anup Kalp and Lavkus Mishra have been named
00:34Champat Rai the secretary of the Temple Trust its driver Tinu Yadav also named Subhash Karunesh
00:41Avinash Shukla Manish Yadav Ram Shankar Mishra among the other accused who have been taken as of now
00:49into custody so clearly the SIT has forced the government now to act eight people have been
00:56detained Maria Shakil joins us with more Maria can you tell us just who these eight people are who
01:02have been detained and what is their link to Champat Rai yes so Rajdeep I would say that the FIR
01:07has
01:07raised perhaps more questions than answers barring Tinu Yadav who is a close aide of Champat Rai who is
01:15the general secretary of the Ram Janambhumi Teerath Trust most of these people are largely unknown these
01:21are cashiers those who handle donations but remember as deep the SIT had highlighted a number of questions
01:29they had spoken about systemic failure they had said that the entire transportation of the donation was
01:36forged there was a problem with that that they had raised questions about our dysfunctional CCTV cameras as
01:43well so are we to believe that the upper management was not aware of any of the wrongdoings of all
01:51those
01:52eight people who have been named in this FIR remember Tinu Yadav the driver or a close aide of Champat
01:58Rai was also responsible for the deposition of all these donations to the banks he had access to those keys
02:06so
02:07the question is did Champat Rai not know that his close aide was indulging in embezzlement while he
02:15was running the trust so these questions remain unanswered and also Rajdeep is this only one FIR or
02:22will there be other people who will be named in the subsequent FIR so a lot of questions unanswered is
02:28what I'll say after looking at this list which is largely of people who are unknown cashiers or those
02:35staffs who used to work under the larger administration of the senior management okay
02:42Maria Shakhin joining us with those details thanks very much
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