Banaskantha, July 14 -- After alleged donation thefts in Ayodhya Ram Temple and Badrinath Dham, old CCTV footage of an alleged theft in the donation room at Ambaji Temple, Gujarat, surfaced. Banaskantha Collector Mihir Pravinkumar Patel said that the police had arrested three temple employees accused of stealing cash.

Addressing the row over the two-month-old CCTV footage from Ambaji Temple, the Banaskantha Collector said that the Temple Trust had lodged a complaint after which the police initiated a probe and held three accused.

He added that since then, the Trust has come up with a new Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for the counting of temple donations to strengthen security and transparency.

Collector Patel told reporters, "The ...