Ayodhya, July 5 -- Amid SIT probe into the Ram temple donation theft controversy, questions are now being raised as to why the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Khetra Trust did not frame rules or a manual for appointing around 1500 employees and paying their salaries, even though rules and a manual exist for appointing priests.

"Like manuals for priests, what service rules were framed for the rest of the employees and fixation of their salary?" asked a Trust employee who did not wish to be named.

"Several crores must have been spent on wages of 1,500 employees. Details of income-expenditure along with revenue expense and assets under separate heads were presented in meetings, which the trustees kept approving. However, the question of servic...