New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday (August 17) said petitioners and other public-spirited citizens can send suggestions to the Solicitor General’s office on what the Special Investigation Team (SIT) should look into as it probes the alleged theft of donations made to the Ram Mandir trust in Ayodhya.A bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice V. Mohana said these suggestions could cover any area that needs a closer look by the SIT, which was set up by the Uttar Pradesh police, Live Law reported.The bench made these observations while hearing a set of petitions asking for a court-monitored probe into the donation scam, along with a demand for an audit of the Ram Mandir trust’s accounts.The court asked Solicitor General Tushar Mehta’s office to pass the suggestions on to the SIT. It also told the SIT to submit a status report in a sealed cover.One of the petitioners’ counsel told the court he’d been directly hit by the alleged irregularities and asked for a chance to hand over material to the investigators. The chief justice replied that since the SIT was already on the job, parties could simply offer suggestions to help make the probe more thorough, as per the report.Also read: How a Whistleblower Blew the Lid off Corruption and Pointed Fingers at Ram Temple Top ManagementSeparate pleas pushing for more transparency around the donations and another on allegations on land deals also came up before the bench. The counsel said an independent chartered accountant had already carried out an audit and that this report would be placed before the court.Meanwhile, the court refused to take up, at this stage, an application from the Nirmohi Akhara, a monastic order of Hindu priests in Ayodhya belonging to the Ramanandi order of the Vaishnavi sect, which argued that the Ram Mandir Trust had structural problems, and suggested converting it into a public trust.Also read: Ram Mandir Funds Theft: Daily Footfall to Temple ‘Reduces by 50%,’ Devotees Have Faith in Justice for ‘Thieves’Chief Justice Surya Kant pointed out that the matter before the bench right now was about the financial irregularities being investigated, not the trust’s structure.Solicitor General Tushar Mehta agreed, saying the trust’s status was a separate issue altogether.The bench said the Nirmohi Akhara was free to bring this up through a fresh, separate petition.Earlier, while speaking to The Wire, Nirmohi Akhara chief and one of the members of the trust, Mahant Dinendra Das had said, “Since theft has already happened, you do understand very well that Ravana has already reached there.”