New Delhi: The first information report (FIR) registered by the Uttar Pradesh police on Thursday (June 25) in relation to the alleged theft of funds from the Ram temple in Ayodhya says that in the preliminary investigation by the special investigation team (SIT) that was constituted earlier, it has clearly come to light that some of those involved in counting of the money received as offerings by the temple have engaged in embezzling the funds in a well-planned and criminal manner.The FIR was registered on Thursday on the basis of a complaint submitted by Krishna Mohan, who, according to the FIR, is a member of the Ram Janmbhoomi Teerth Kshetra.“Based on the SIT’s preliminary investigation report and an examination of available oral, documentary, and electronic evidence, it has become prima facie evident that some personnel engaged in the counting process committed theft, embezzlement, and criminal misappropriation of the gifts/offering money in a well-planned, recurring, and criminal manner,” says the FIR written in Hindi and registered on the basis of Krishna Mohan.“Based on the facts detailed in the SIT’s preliminary report and the available oral, documentary, and electronic evidence as well as financial records, it is necessary to register a case against Avinash Shukla, Anukul Mishra, Lavkush Mishra, Manish Kumar Yadav, Karunesh Pandey, and Ramashankar Mishra for offences including theft of gifts/offering money, embezzlement, criminal misappropriation, criminal breach of trust, possession/receipt of stolen property, common intention, criminal conspiracy, abetment, and other relevant offences,” says the FIR.The FIR also says that the prima facie the roles of Subhash Srivastava, the concerned Trust and bank supervisory personnel present in the counting room, Shri Ramshankar Yadav alias Tinnu, and other concerned individuals have also come up.The FIR has been registered against eight named accused including Avinash Shukla, Anukalp Mishra, Lavkush Mishra, Manish Kumar Yadav, Karunesh Pandey, Ramashankar Mishra, Subhash Srivastav, Ramshankar Yadav alias Tinnu and other unknown persons.The accused in the FIR have been booked under sections 305 (theft in a dwelling house, or means of transportation or place of worship, etc.), 306 (theft by clerk or servant of property in possession of master), 316 (5) (whoever, being in any manner entrusted with property, or with any dominion over property in his capacity of a public servant or in the way of his business as a banker, merchant, factor, broker, attorney or agent commits criminal breach of trust in respect of that property), 317 (4) (receives or deals in property which he knows or has reason to believe to be stolen property), 317 (5) (whoever voluntarily assists in concealing or disposing of or making away with property which he knows or has reason to believe to be stolen property), 61 (criminal conspiracy) and 3 (5) (when a criminal act is done by several persons in furtherance of the common intention of all) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and under section 13 (1) (a) (if a public servant dishonestly or fraudulently misappropriates or otherwise converts for his own use any property entrusted to him or any property under his control as a public servant or allows any other person so to do) of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1988.On Friday (June 26), all eight accused named in the FIR were arrested, while Champat Rai, general secretary of the Shri Ram Janmbhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust, and trustee Anil Mishra, both in the eye of the storm regarding donations, resigned.The FIR comes nearly three weeks after allegations first surfaced that crores of rupees and silver and gold items donated by devotees to the temple, built where the Babri Masjid once stood, had been stolen.After an outcry over the theft allegations, first made public on June 7, the Uttar Pradesh government set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the matter. Still, individuals claiming to have donated valuables to the temple coffers surfaced on social media and in news reports, and demanded accountability from the trust.