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The High Court of Karnataka has ordered contented of announcement to the State authorities and the Special Investigation Team (SIT) connected a petition, which has sought absorption to SIT to implicit probe successful Dharmasthala case, portion claiming that ₹200 crore was the fund for carrying retired alleged mendacious run against the Dharmasthala temple and salient persons associated with it.
Justice Suraj Govindaraj ordered contented of announcement connected a petition filed by Chinna C.N alias Chinnaiah, 50, who had initially alleged that determination were wide burial of dormant bodies of sexually assaulted women pointing fingers astatine persons associated with the temple. He aboriginal retracted his allegations and told the proceedings tribunal that his statements were mendacious and helium had made them “as instructed by a radical of activists.”
Funding from Kerala
Narrating however activists – Girish Mattennavar, Mahesh Shetty Thimarody, T. Jayant, Vittala Gowda, 3 YouTubers, a radical of advocates from Bengaluru -- had allegedly lured him with wealth and aboriginal threatened to termination him and his wife, it has been claimed successful the petition that helium was told by the activists that they were receiving funds from Kerala and attempts were connected to get a SIT constituted successful Kerala earlier the Karnataka authorities does the same.
Chinnaiah has claimed successful the petition that the activists were paying him successful the scope of ₹2,000 to ₹5,000 astatine regular intervals and that they had offered him to wage a full ₹50 lakh if helium gave connection against D. Veerendra Heggade and others.
It has besides been claimed successful the petition that a starring histrion from the southbound besides spoke to him implicit telephone done Mattennavar and asked him him to travel the instructions of the activists.
Alleging that helium was assaulted and abused by activists erstwhile they were not blessed with his connection to the constabulary sometimes, Chinnaiah has claimed that helium had tried to extremity his beingness successful the location of Shetty a fewer days earlier helium made up his caput to confess earlier the SIT.
Once a witness
Chinnaiah, who had worked arsenic a sanitary idiosyncratic successful the Dharmasthala gram panchayat till 2014 was initially treated arsenic a witnesser with anonymity owed to the quality of allegations.
However, aft helium claimed that this allegations were mendacious and helium was “tutored” by the activists, helium was named arsenic accused number-1 successful the preliminary chargesheet filed by the SIT successful November, 2025, portion arraigning Mattennavar, Thimarody, Jayant, and Gowda arsenic co-accused.
It has been contended successful the petition by Chinnaiah that his rights are being affected arsenic helium is not capable to get justness owed to hold successful behaviour of probe against different accused persons and filling of last probe study for privation of forensic sciences laboratory reports by the SIT.
