Dharmasthala burials case: Belthangady court asks SIT to submit final report

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The Additional Civil Judge and Judicial Magistrate First Class Court, Belthangady, connected Saturday asked the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the Dharmasthala wide burials lawsuit to taxable its last report, relating to perjury and transgression offences alleged against Chinnaiah and different accused persons, for it to instrumentality cognisance of the offences mentioned successful the study submitted connected November 20.

In the order, Additional Civil Judge and Judicial Magistrate First Class, Belthangady, T.H. Vijayendra, said the SIT filed the 3,900-page report, nether Section 215 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Surakasha Sanhita connected November 20 erstwhile the complainant Chinnaih was successful judicial custody and determination was a ineligible request for the SIT to record study wrong 90 days of the arrest. The tribunal besides took enactment of the SIT’s reflection successful the study that the remaining accused, Mahesh Shetty Thimarody, Girish Mattennavar, T. Jayanth, Vittal Gowda, and Sujatha Bhat, person not cooperated successful the investigation.

Therefore astatine this stage, the tribunal said it volition not walk an bid connected the study filed by the SIT connected November 20. The tribunal asked the SIT to record its last study successful the case.

On December 31, Dharmasthala Manjunatheswara temple spokesperson K. Parshwanath Jain filed an exertion seeking support of the tribunal to implead successful the proceedings arsenic the temple was a unfortunate successful the case.

On Saturday, activists Jayanth, Mattennavar, and different accused filed an exertion asking the tribunal to perceive them earlier taking cognisance of the SIT report. But later, the counsel for the applicants withdrew the aforesaid application.

Allowing the plea of authoritative Divyaraj Hegde seeking clip to record objection to the temple’s application, Mr. Vijayendra posted it to January 23. As the magistrate is going for regular judicial training, the lawsuit volition travel up earlier Additional Civil Judge and JMFC, Bantwal, who volition beryllium holding further complaint of the Belthangady court, connected January 23.

Published - January 03, 2026 08:24 p.m. IST

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