Chairperson of Karnataka Commission for Women seeks SIT probe into Dharmasthala burials

In a letter to the Chief Minister on July 14, she mentioned the scope of the investigation ought to cowl probing instances of lacking girls and lady college students, unnatural deaths, murders and rapes reported within the village up to now twenty years.

An individual, who has filed a grievance with Dharmasthala police, has claimed that he buried our bodies of many individuals, together with ladies and men, who have been allegedly murdered and raped within the village. He has given a press release in courtroom on the identical.

The letter acknowledged that there are allegations that when relations of victims of crimes went to the police station, police didn’t reply correctly. Hence, an SIT led by senior police officers must be constituted to probe the declare of the complainant.

On July 12, Dakshina Kannada police went on file that they should confirm with the complainant his stand on whether or not there was a necessity to alter the Investigation Officer (IO), or if there was a must represent a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe his grievance. Police may even have to determine with the advocates representing the complainant whether or not they have been conscious of the demand, a police assertion acknowledged.

On July 11, the complainant produced a number of the skeletal stays of a physique, that he claimed to have exhumed on his personal, earlier than the Principal Civil Judge and Judicial Magistrate First Class, Belthangady courtroom. Police seized the physique elements in entrance of the advocates representing the complainant and ‘panch’ witnesses.