Champat Rai resigned from the post of General Secretary of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust citing moral grounds, sources told ANI on Friday, adding that Trust member Anil Mishra has also resigned.
His resignation comes after the Uttar Pradesh government had up a Special Investigation Team (sit) to probe allegations of embezzlement of donations at the Ram temple in Ayodhya. The First Information Report (FIR) in the donation case named Ram Shankar Yadav alias Tinnu Yadav who was said to be a former driver of the Trust's general secretary Champat Rai, according to PTI.