India, June 26 -- LUCKNOW All eight persons named in an FIR over the alleged embezzlement of donations received at the Ram temple in Ayodhya have been arrested and remanded to judicial custody till Monday by a special anti-corruption court in Ayodhya, even as investigators recovered nearly Rs.80 lakh in cash from seven of the accused and prepared to seek their police custody for further interrogation and additional recoveries, said officials on Friday.

The case, widely seen as the first major criminal investigation into the handling of donations at the Ram Temple, was registered on Thursday on a complaint by the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust following the recommendations of a government-appointed Special Investigation Team (S...