Ayodhya, July 5 -- After having shared information with the police, who visited the State Bank of India's Naya Ghat branch in Ayodhya earlier this week for details regarding the Ram temple donation theft probe, Anoop Tripathi, chief manager of the branch, went to the office of Ayodhya circle officer Ashutosh Tewari on Saturday to record his official statement in the ongoing probe, official sources said.

The Ayodhya police are now extensively probing the role of the SBI staff and that of eight arrested men, including six outsourced employees hired by a private security agency, in connection with the investigation, the sources said.

On June 29, a police team from the Ram Janmabhoomi police station spent about four hours at the SBI's Naya ...