Banke Bihari money now has two doors: designated boxes or the online treasury, and sevayats are told not to cut the trail.

A Supreme Court bench led by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant on Tuesday, 25 August 2026, directed that every donation at the Banke Bihari Temple go into designated boxes or the online temple treasury. Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice V. Mohana sat with the Chief Justice. The temple sits in Vrindavan in Uttar Pradesh. The order was read in New Delhi. Routing money is a direction. It is not a finding that any sevayat has stolen an offering.

The direction followed a status report and photographs from the court-appointed high-powered committee. This desk will not invent the committee’s membership, a rupee total of unaccounted cash, or a photograph caption the tip does not lock. A status report is a committee paper. Photographs are a committee paper. They are not a conviction.

The managing committee must introduce a transparent mechanism. Interference by sevayats or others, the bench said, will be viewed seriously. A warning about interference is a warning. It is not a contempt finding and it is not a removal order. Any sevayat entitlement arises only after an offering is accounted for as deity money. That sequencing is the Tuesday line. Siphoning allegations sit on the wider temple file. They are not guilt findings on this order.

Designated boxes and an online treasury are the two doors the bench wrote. This page will not invent a third cash-handling channel, a sevayat share percentage, or a deadline the order as locked here does not print. Deity money is the legal character of an accounted offering. An unaccounted hand-to-hand gift is what the direction is written to stop. Stopping a practice by direction is not a trial of named sevayats.

New Delhi holds the Supreme Court. Vrindavan holds the temple. Form B and any poll date are not notified. This desk will not invent a receiver, an attachment of jewellery, or a merged finding that photographs equal proved siphoning.

A temple-donation direction is an accounts order. It is not a land order, and it is not a ritual rewrite. This desk will not invent a queue-management circular, a darshan fee, or a sevayat roll the Tuesday order as locked here does not print. The high-powered committee’s status report and photographs are the papers the bench read. Reading them is not adopting every caption as proved fact.

Until the managing committee writes the mechanism and the bench sits again, the public ledger is a Tuesday direction that every Banke Bihari donation enter designated boxes or the online temple treasury, a managing-committee duty to make that trail transparent, a serious-view warning against sevayat or other interference, a rule that sevayat entitlement waits on deity-money accounting, a status report and photographs from a court-appointed high-powered committee, and a bench of the Chief Justice of India with Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice V. Mohana. Siphoning remains allegation. The audit trail is the order. Guilt is not.