{"id":68,"date":"2026-07-21T05:56:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T05:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news4earth.com\/?p=68"},"modified":"2026-07-21T05:56:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T05:56:56","slug":"supreme-court-orders-sit-probe-into-ram-temple-donation-irregularities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news4earth.com\/?p=68","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Orders SIT Probe Into Ram Temple Donation Irregularities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"citation-267 citation-end-267\">In a major legal update, the Supreme Court of India proposed and directed the formation of a court-monitored Special Investigation Team (SIT) to look into allegations of financial mismanagements and cash thefts from the Ram Temple donation funds in Ayodhya.<\/span> A bench led by top judges emphasized that the matter must be treated as a straightforward criminal investigation without letting public discourse descend into political mudslinging. <span class=\"citation-266 citation-end-266\">The court noted that unverified corruption claims risk damaging public trust and the reputation of administrative bodies, cautioning all political factions to refrain from politicizing temple affairs.<\/span> <span class=\"citation-265 citation-end-265\">In response, the shrine trust has already deployed fresh cash-counting teams working under two-shift systems and increased institutional oversight from state banking partners.<\/span> The SIT has been instructed to review all operational records, security logs, and financial flows to submit a final report within a specified timeline, ensuring complete transparency and structural reform for handling large-scale public donations moving forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a major legal update, the Supreme Court of India proposed and directed the formation of a court-monitored Special Investigation Team (SIT) to look into allegations of financial mismanagements and cash thefts from the Ram Temple donation funds in Ayodhya. A bench led by top judges emphasized that the matter must be treated as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news4earth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news4earth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news4earth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news4earth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news4earth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news4earth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"https:\/\/news4earth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news4earth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news4earth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news4earth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news4earth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}