00:11It is the biggest assault on Aastha, a betrayal of the faith of lax and crows of Ram Bhakts.
00:18After days of outrage and mounting political heat, accountability is finally being fixed in the Ram Mandir Chandachori case.
00:26All eight arrested accused have been remanded to an additional 14 days of judicial custody and the fallout has already
00:34begun.
00:35The Ayodhya Bar Association has resolved that none of the accused will receive legal representation from its members.
00:41The SIT Janch has been done to save many objects.
00:46The Sadan has said that the same thing will not be done in the past, but it will also be
00:52done in the past.
00:55And we will also ask the CBI Janch, which will be written in the Supreme Court.
01:08The spotlight is now firmly on one of the accused, Lovkush Mishra.
01:14India today has learned that he and his wife purchased a property worth nearly 9 lakh rupees,
01:20allegedly using money siphoned off from Ram Mandir donations.
01:24Ram Mandir donation theft accused Lovkush Mishra, who was salaried of 12 to 15,000 per month,
01:31got a valuable property in Ayodhya, 8 lakh 80,000.
01:37This is the documented value which has been declared by the government documents on March 2026.
01:46This land is registered on the name of Lovkush Mishra's wife, Supriya Mishra.
01:54But an even bigger question is now surfacing.
01:57Did the Ram Mandir Trust know about the alleged theft well before it became public and chose to remain silent?
02:06According to sources, certain members of the temple management became aware of the alleged theft on the 4th of June.
02:13A day later, on the 5th of June, Trust representatives accompanied by police officials
02:18searched the house of accused Ravina Shukla, where nearly 58 lakh rupees was allegedly recovered.
02:24This was all done on Champath Rai's instructions.
02:28Between June 5th and June 8th, the remaining amount was allegedly returned by the accused through bank transfers.
02:34Yet it was only on June 7th that allegations of the donation theft entered the public domain.
02:42What raises even more questions is that the FII was registered only on the 25th of June,
02:47almost three weeks after the trust allegedly first became aware of the theft.
02:54Champath Rai, who stepped down as General Secretary of the Ram Mandir Trust after the controversy escalated,
02:59was questioned by the police today.
03:02Sources say the statement of former trustee Anil Mishra will also be recorded soon.
03:07The Ayodhya VAR Association is now demanding action against both of them as well.
03:32As the SIT probe gathers space, more layers of the alleged donation theft are beginning to unravel.
03:37But the biggest question remains unanswered.
03:41Who masterminded this betrayal of devotees' faith and did the conspiracy extend to influential figures within the trust?
03:48With Santosh from Ayodhya, Bureau Report, India Today.
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