Overview

• The Law and Judiciary Department has been ordered to register criminal cases against the Shri Shaneshwar Devasthan Trust trustees.
• Maharashtra Cyber’s ADG Yashasvi Yadav will lead a probe into bogus mobile applications used to defraud devotees of lakhs of rupees.
• A state audit uncovered 2,447 ghost employees on the trust’s payroll, with salaries diverted to private accounts across multiple temple departments.
• Cyber Police have begun an independent investigation into the digital donation scam following revelations of fake app misuse.
• Opposition parties AAP and Congress are demanding an expanded inquiry to identify all individuals complicit in the trust’s financial misconduct.