The Special Investigation Team’s (SIT) preliminary probe into the alleged theft of cash offering at the Ram temple has put senior Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust office-bearer Dr Anil Mishra under the scanner, holding him responsible for supervisory failures that allegedly allowed repeated theft of devotees’ cash donations despite his knowledge that mandatory security checks were not being enforced. Preliminary probe alleges the trust office-bearer did not issue effective directions despite being aware that mandatory frisking had stopped. (For representation) The three-member SIT, in its report submitted to the Uttar Pradesh government on June 23, attributed supervisory accountability to Dr Mishra, saying his failure to ensure enforcement of the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) created conditions that allegedly enabled repeated theft and criminal misappropriation inside the temple’s donation-counting room. Dr Mishra’s resignation from the trust was accepted at its meeting held in Ayodhya on Monday, days after the SIT submitted its report. The report formed the basis for registration of an FIR, following which eight persons have been arrested. While six counting personnel have been …