The Special Investigation Team, which is probing the alleged mass burials in Dharmasthala, on Wednesday continued with ‘mahazar’ related to the spot from where the skeletal remains, which were produced by 45-year-old Chinnaiah before the court, were picked up.
Chinnaiah had told the SIT that the skeletal remains were given to him by Vittala Gowda, uncle of 2012 rape-and-murder victim Soujanya. The SIT had taken Gowda to the place in Banglagudde on September 6 from where he is said to have picked up the skeletal remains. On Wednesday evening, the SIT revisited the spot.
While the process was on, a group of Dharmasthala residents took objection to Ajay Anchan’s claim that 56 skeletal remains were found in Banglagudde. Questioning the source of the claim, the residents pointed towards Anchan, who was present at the spot, and said they cannot tolerate false claims about Dharmasthala.
As tempers rose, the police and reporters of some news channels intervened to send residents away.
Meanwhile, Ganesh and Bharati, children of Narayan who was found dead along with his sister Yamuna in Dharmasthala in 2012, visited the office of the SIT on Wednesday. They had come to hand over a copy of the High Court order allowing them to withdraw a petition seeking investigation into the deaths of Narayan and Yamuna.
The CID had filed the ‘C’ report into the deaths of Yamuna and Narayan. Ganesh had filed a petition before the High Court seeking investigation, while filing another petition with the same plea before the SIT on August 18.
