The State Bank of India is banker to the Ram temple in Ayodhya. The cash offerings at the temple are counted in the temple complex and regularly deposited at the Ayodhya branch of the bank, where the temple trust operates two accounts.
The trust was formed to construct the temple after a Supreme Court judgement in 2019 awarded the site of the demolished Babri Masjid to Hindus.
Two years after the inauguration of the temple, the trust and its powerful members have been hit by allegations that vast amounts of money and jewellery donated by devotees have been stolen under their watch.
As Scroll has reported, one of those officials under scrutiny is Anil Mishra, a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and most prominent name in the Sangh in the Awadh region.
According to the Indian Express, Mishra was in charge of the temple’s donation and counting process. He has reportedly resigned from the Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust, though his resignation is yet to be accepted.
Strikingly, a State Bank of India official and his family live as tenants in Mishra’s home in Faizabad’s Amaniganj locality, Scroll has found.
The SBI official, Addikya Raghu Ram Sagar, was interrogated by the Special Investigation Team formed by the Uttar Pradesh government to inquire into the allegations of theft, according...
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