SIT submits final report to Ram Janmabhoomi Trust in Ayodhya temple donation theft case

The Uttar Pradesh Dwelling Division has handed over the Special Investigation Team’s final report within the Ayodhya Ram temple donation theft case to the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Belief to take additional motion, an official assertion stated on Monday (August 17, 2026).

The three-member SIT, headed by Lucknow Divisional Commissioner Vijay Vishwas Pant, was constituted by the State authorities on June 13 on the request of the Belief, earlier than the Supreme Courtroom intervened within the matter.

Vary Inspector Common Kiran S. and Particular Secretary (Finance) Neel Ratan Kumar are the opposite members.

The panel had submitted its preliminary report back to the State authorities on June 23, making a number of stringent suggestions.

Based mostly on the preliminary report, Belief member Krishnamohan filed a written criticism on the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi police station, following which an FIR was registered within the case on June 25.

The FIR named eight individuals — Avinash Shukla, Anukalp Mishra, Lavkush Mishra, Manish Kumar Yadav, Karunesh Pandey, Ramashankar Mishra, Subhash Srivastava and Ram Shankar Yadav alias Tinnu — and different unidentified people as accused.

The accused have been booked underneath related sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and part 13(1)(a) of the Prevention of Corruption Act.

The preliminary report had additionally fashioned the idea for subsequent FIR and arrest-related motion within the case.