Overview
- The Sheetla Mata temple priest in Lucknow found the donation box missing on Friday morning and filed a complaint with Cantt police.
- CCTV footage shows a barefoot youth pausing for about 15 seconds, carefully moving a vermilion bowl and a lit lamp, removing a matchbox and cloth, then lifting the box and walking backward.
- Police say the person seen in the video may be a minor, and officers are analyzing the footage to identify and trace the suspect.
- Separately, CCTV from a temple in Amroha’s Green Colony captured cash being taken from a donation box, and police there have opened an investigation.
- In Jhansi, video from a mobile phone shop appears to show a woman using a distraction to take cash, and authorities are reviewing the recording to track her.