BALLIA: The Ballia district administration has sealed a gymnasium allegedly being run illegally by a man who was recently arrested for posting an ‘objectionable’ Facebook comment on the Ram Temple donations theft row in Ayodhya, news agency PTI reported.City magistrate Asharam Verma said a joint team of the administration, police and the fire department inspected the gym located on Garhwar Road on Tuesday.During the inspection, the operator failed to produce documents related to the establishment, Verma said.The gym was sealed after it was found that it was operating from the basement of a building and lacked mandatory fire safety equipment, he added.As per the PTI report, the action came days after a case was registered against the gym owner, Irshad Ali (28), a resident of Parmandapur, over a Facebook post on the alleged embezzlement of donations at the Ram temple in Ayodhya.The case was registered on Sunday based on a complaint lodged by Vivek Kumar Pathak, who alleged that Ali had made an objectionable post regarding the alleged misuse of temple donations.According to the complaint, the post was intended to create misconceptions about the faith of millions of Ram devotees, disturb communal harmony, and spread hatred.Ballia SP Omvir Singh had earlier said that Ali was arrested in connection with the case on Monday.The alleged embezzlement of temple donations has triggered a major political controversy, with opposition parties accusing the BJP and the RSS of betraying Hindus and Lord Ram, and demanding a wider probe into the matter.The controversy erupted on June 7 after Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav alleged embezzlement of donations at the Ram temple.On June 13, the Uttar Pradesh government constituted a three-member SIT to investigate the allegations, which uncovered serious lapses in the temple’s donation management system.Based on the SIT’s preliminary findings, eight men have been arrested so far for the alleged embezzlement of temple donations.
