The State Bank of India (SBI) wanted to replace the Ram Temple’s donation-counting staff three months before the alleged donation embezzlement scam came to light. Members of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust allegedly stopped this and allowed the employees to continue their work, bank sources claimed on Monday, as per PTI. Police officials interrogate the family members of Ramashankar alias Tinnu Yadav, accused in connection with the embezzlement of donations at the Ram temple, in Ayodhya. (PTI) SBI suspected that someone was siphoning money from the temple’s donation boxes and recommended removing the cash-counting staff. The outsourcing agency started the process of replacing them, but Trust officials allegedly intervened and stopped them from getting replaced, PTI reported. SBI reportedly hired the workers through an outsourcing agency on monthly salaries of ₹12,000 to ₹15,000. ALSO READ | Ram Temple donation case: Bar association asks members not to represent accused SBI sources told PTI that several people involved in the temple’s management, though not Trust members, questioned why the bank used outsourced staff instead of …