Ram temple donation ‘theft’: Police gets 39-hour remand of two accused
The move is aimed at allowing investigating officials to question them and help in recovering the stolen cash, valuables and other evidence.
The move is aimed at allowing investigating officials to question them and help in recovering the stolen cash, valuables and other evidence.
The order came after a complaint in this regard was lodged Vikas Tyagi, former provincial coordinator of Bajrang Dal.
Officials informed on Monday that Jaunpur Police managed to solve the case within 14 hours of the recovery of the body.
Police investigating the alleged embezzlement of offerings at the Ram Temple conducted a five-hour interrogation of three jailed accused on Sunday as part of their ongoing probe.
The accused named in the case include Ramshankar Yadav (alias Tinnu), who is associated with temple management, along with Trust employees Anukalp Mishra, Lavkush Mishra, Manish Yadav, Karunesh Pandey, Ramashankar Mishra, and Avinash Shukla. Retired bank employee Subhash Srivastava has also been named as an accused.
The Delhi Police's Special Cell on Sunday said that they have arrested arms supplier Avtar Singh who supplied 10 weapons to Khalid and Zeeshan, the two aides of UP don Atiq Ahmed's son Asad, as well another aide named Jawed and all four have been sent to judicial custody here.
In the past six years, since Yogi Adityanath took over the rein in Uttar Pradesh, nearly 178 listed criminals, most of them carrying cash rewards ranging from Rs 75,000 to Rs 5 lakh on their arrest, have been shot dead in encounters.
ATS special Judge Vivekananda Sharan Tripathi, while awarding life imprisonment to the three convicted terrorists, also imposed a fine of Rs 18,000 on each of them.
The state government has appointed Inspector-General of Police (IG), Lucknow range, Laxmi Singh, as the first woman Police Commissioner of the state giving her the charge of Noida.
According to reports, angry locals who spotted the flag, which was installed parallel to a saffron flag, took to the streets and forced traders to shut shops in protest.
