Overview
- The trust started recording every stage of donation handling using 360-degree and SLR cameras from July 25 to create an unbroken visual record from moving empty boxes to counting the cash.
- Two professional videographers now film the process while an eight-member monitoring team that includes two bank officials, two trust representatives and two security staff supervises each count.
- Around 40 donation boxes are now emptied on separate days and officials from the State Bank of India formally seal boxes in the counting room to preserve chain of custody.
- The tighter controls follow an SIT criminal probe that produced multiple arrests and has shifted into financial forensics, with investigators seeking tax and company records for Saundarya Construction and Suppliers linked to an accused's family.
- The trust says the inquiry is in its final stage and expects the new procedures to speed audits and prosecutions, but political demands for independent oversight and accountability remain intense.