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Eleven days since assistance of bail, C.N. Chinnaiah, the complainant, who was aboriginal arrested for perjury successful the Dharmsthala alleged wide burial case, continues to beryllium successful the Shivamogga Central Prison.
Official sources said Chinnaiah is yet to put 2 sureties to get enlarged connected bail. On November 24, Principal District and Sessions Court, Dakshina Kannada, had allowed a regular bail application of Chinnaiah and ordered his merchandise connected execution of idiosyncratic enslaved of ₹ 1 lakh, with 2 sureties for the like-sum.
From whistleblower to accused
Chinnaiah had filed a ailment with the Dharmasthala Police astir burying of batch of bodies successful Dharmasthala successful the play betwixt 1995 and 2014. He past appeared earlier the Belthangady tribunal and gave voluntary connection wherein helium produced a skull by stating that it was of a pistillate buried by him.
The Special Investigation Team (SIT) investigated into the ailment and dug 18 places showed by Chinnaiah. Skeletal remains were recovered successful 3 places and each the 3 skeletal remains were recovered to beryllium of a male. The skull produced earlier the Beltangady tribunal was besides recovered to beryllium of a man.
The SIT recovered that Chinnaiah had fixed a mendacious ailment and declaration earlier the Belthangady court. The SIT arrested him connected August 23 for perjury and different offences punishable nether Sections 227, 228, 229, 230, 231,233, 236, 240, 248 and 336 of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. Since past helium has been successful the Shivamogga Central Prison.
SIT chargesheet
On November 20, SIT filed chargesheet (a ailment study nether Section 215 of BNSS) against Chinnaiah and 4 activists Mahesh Shetty Thimarody, Girish Mattennavar, T.Jayanth and Vittala Gowda, aft uncovering that the activists had pressurised Chinnaiah to springiness mendacious complaint. Sujatha Bhat has besides been named arsenic an accused for giving mendacious ailment that her daughter, who was an MBBS student, had gone missing from Dharmasthala.
The Belthangady tribunal is acceptable to determine connected taking cognisance of the SIT study connected Saturday (December 6, 2025).
Petitions by Soujanya’s mother
Meanwhile, the writ petition filed connected November 6 earlier the High Court of Karnataka by Kusumavathi Gowda, parent of 2012 rape and execution unfortunate Soujanaya, seeking an FIR for each of the unnatural deaths successful Dharmasthala betwixt 1990 and 2021, continues to beryllium successful the scrutiny signifier arsenic defects successful the petition person not been addressed.
Similarly, defects are yet to beryllium corrected successful the peculiar permission petition filed by Ms. Kusumavathi connected November 21 earlier Supreme Court seeking de-novo probe into Soujanya execution case.
