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Lucknow: Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday questioned the functioning of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) into the alleged embezzlement of donations made at Ayodhya’s Ram Temple, asking for a probe into the call detail records of the accused and seeking accountability of the temple trust’s senior officials.

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In a reference to the Shri Ram Janmbhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust’s former General Secretary Champat Rai, whose driver, Tinnu Yadav, has been arrested in the case, Akhilesh Yadav said: “If the driver gets trapped, the owner gets trapped too.”

“If the CDR (call detail records) is pulled, it’ll show that the most calls came from BJP folks themselves – those who want to leave BJP and come over here,” he said.

Asking for the “dissolution” of the whole trust, he said: “Mere resignation whitewashing won’t cut it. For all those who’ve stepped down, a judicial probe must be set up on every land deal and other actions signed off by them. Resignation shouldn’t become an escape route.”

Akhilesh Yadav made the statement while referring to the resignations of Champat Rai and former Trustee Anil Mishra. (IANS)