India, July 3 -- Congress leader KC Venugopal has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding a Supreme Court- monitored investigation into allegations of irregularities in the Ram Temple donation collections. He referred to the Special Investigation Team (SIT) constituted to look into matter and said its actions so far "are an eyewash" clearly designed to shield the "big fish".

"So far, only the 'small fish'-drivers, clerks and outsourced cashiers-have been arrested, while the institutional support and chain of command that enabled the brazen loot remain untouched," said Venugopal in the letter on Thursday.

Venugopal said that staff siphoned donations daily and 7 to 8 months of CCTV footage were missing, indicating irreg...