LUCKNOW, June 26 -- The Uttar Pradesh Police on Thursday lodged a first information report (FIR) on a complaint by the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust in connection with allegations of irregularities in donations for the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, naming an aide of the trust's general secretary Champat Rai and seven others. The FIR -- registered at the Ram Janmabhoomi police station on the complaint of trust member Krishna Mohan -- came 12 days after a preliminary probe by a state-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) recommended criminal action. This is the first concrete legal action, coming over three weeks after the allegations were first made by former Samajwadi Party MLA Tej Naryan Pandey. Senior police officials said the FIR named Rama Shankar Yadav alias Tinnu, a close aide of Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust general secretary Champat Rai, along with Avinash Shukla, Anukalp Mishra, Luvkush Mishra, Subash Srivastava, Rama Shankar Yadav, Manish Yadav and Karunesh Pandey. All of them are full-time trust employees, while Rama Shankar is the supervisor and the rest are cash counting staff. The case was registered against the eight named accused and other unidentified people under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections 306, 316(5), 317(4), 317(5), 61 and 3(5), relating to offences such as criminal breach of trust, cheating, theft and criminal conspiracy, a senior police officer said. No one from the trust was available for a comment. Meanwhile, the state government is yet to respond on the FIR. State BJP spokesperson Ashok Pandey said, "As assured by the chief minister, an FIR was lodged in the case. The CM has categorically stated that no one will be spared and stern action will be taken. The SIT will also submit its final report to the state government soon." HT reached out to Rai and Nripendra Misra, the Ram temple construction committee chairman, but they were not available for comment. The Uttar Pradesh government constituted the three-member SIT on June 13 on the request of the trust. The team reached Ayodhya on June 15 and returned to Lucknow on June 20 after conducting its preliminary inquiry. The SIT comprised Lucknow divisional commissioner Vijay Vishwas Pant, inspector general of police (Lucknow Range) Kiran S, and special secretary (finance) Neel Ratan....