India, July 2 -- The Ayodhya Police on Wednesday filed an application in the court of additional district judge (anti-corruption) Rajat Varma, seeking a two-day police custody remand for Avinash Shukla, from whose house the highest amount of money was recovered in connection with the Ram Temple donation controversy.

The developments came a day after Ashutosh Tewari, the Ayodhya circle officer and the investigating officer in the case, interrogated Shukla in Ayodhya jail. Shukla named some trust officials, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The eight men arrested so far include Anukalp Mishra, Lavkush Mishra, Ram Shankar Yadav 'Tinnu', Manish Yadav, Subhash Srivastava, Avinash Shukla, Rama Shankar Mishra, and Karunesh Pandey...