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Investigation into Ram Temple Donations and Financial Irregularities

Friday, June 26, 2026
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Investigation into Ram Temple Donations and Financial Irregularities

The whole thing about the Ram Temple donations it’s really turning into a mess now.

The Special Investigation Team, that SIT looking into those allegations of irregularities at the Ramjanmabhoomi Temple in Ayodhya, they’ve come up with some big recommendations. It basically says the whole administrative setup needs to be completely restructured. They even suggested putting a Chief Executive Officer in place, kind of like how the Kashi Vishwanath Temple handles its management.

This three-member team wrapped up their week-long probe into missing offerings and financial stuff. They handed their preliminary report over to the Uttar Pradesh Home Department on Tuesday. Lucknow’s Divisional Commissioner Vijay Vishwas Pant was the one who passed it along to Sanjay Prasad, the Additional Chief Secretary (Home).

What they found? Well, according to what the Times of India is hinting at citing folks who know the details the core idea is restructuring the whole Ram Temple trust. They want better financial transparency. Accountability. Efficiency. And appointing someone, a CEO sort of figure, to actually run things and fix up the management systems.

The government set up this SIT back in June 13th because there were claims that crores of rupees from devotees’ offerings just vanished. It was asked by the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust. A massive probe for missing cash, gold, and stuff linked to Lord Ram’s idol and those sacred padukas.

The SIT dug into how donations got collected. How they were counted. Scrutinized the money records. They interviewed nearly 150 people connected to running the temple operations. They looked at who handled the donation boxes, the banking side of things too.

Officials are saying the preliminary report has recommendations aimed at tightening up oversight and making sure there’s more openness in how temple donations are managed. But they haven't officially released anything yet. Still waiting on the final version.

Commissioner Pant spoke after submitting it. He said this was just the first run. The real final report is coming, maybe in ten to fifteen days. There’s still work left.

“Based on what we’ve seen so far and the facts available,” he told them. “We submitted this first report today. The final one comes later.”

The allegations are huge. It centers on things disappearing. Cash. Valuables donated by people to the temple. Questions about 70 kilos of silver, 1,250 kilos of gold, and seriously, Rs 200 crore in cash plus other items offerings tied directly to Lord Ram’s idol and those sacred footprints too.

This whole donation row just exploded politically. People are reacting fast. Akhilesh Yadav, the Samajwadi Party chief, jumped in immediately. He claimed some people were just “filling their pockets.” And then he added this fresh layer of drama about a silver slab allegedly gone something donated by the Sindhi community, along with gold bricks and jewelry.

Yadav was demanding daily updates from the SIT. He felt that public trust in the agency had completely eroded. He pegged it as widespread corruption under the BJP government.

Meanwhile, Congress MP Imran Masood started asking why no FIR had been registered over this whole scandal.

It’s a lot happening behind the scenes with all these claims about mismanagement and missing wealth. The investigation is still moving, but the political noise around it has certainly gotten louder.

Written by Gree News Team — Senior Editorial Board

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