India, July 8 -- Recently deposed Ram Temple trust general secretary Champat Rai disowned a 2025 document detailing guidelines for the cash counting process and said he never saw the agreement bearing the signatures of former trust member Anil Mishra and then manager of the State Bank of India's (SBI) local branch, HT has learnt.

In his one-page Hindi submission before the special investigation team (SIT), accessed by HT, Rai said he personally signed every page of a February 9, 2024 agreement with SBI, according to which security measures such as CCTV cameras and an iron-barred door at the counting room entrance were installed.

But he added that he had no knowledge of another agreement dated February 6, 2025 bearing the signatures of f...