Overview
- The Special Investigation Team that began fieldwork on June 15 is expected to hand an initial report to the state government on Sunday and has already questioned senior trust officials, counting staff and some bank employees.
- Investigators have mapped specific duties inside the Ram Janmabhoomi trust and say records for large donated items are unclear, with jewellers and donors alleging about 60 kilograms of donated silver and several pieces of jewellery cannot currently be located.
- Donors are pressuring the trust for transparency while sources say the SIT is preparing possible action against temple employees involved in cash counting and some bank personnel, and that the initial file may run to more than 150 pages.
- Separate administrative developments include the National Testing Agency saying a Nagpur NEET candidate’s exam-city change to Abu Dhabi was made from the candidate’s login and that the centre was reallocated to Nagpur after an informal 48-hour request, and six Shiv Sena (UBT) MPs moving toward the Shinde-led camp with at least one MP publicly confirming the switch.
- High-level US–Iran implementation talks began in Bürgenstock, Switzerland on Sunday and shipping-route uncertainty has pushed Indian refiners to raise June crude purchases from Russia and the UAE while cutting US imports, according to maritime data.