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C.N. Chinna, (Chinnaiah), who has been accused of filing a mendacious ailment of wide burial of bodies successful Dharmasthala village, has filed a ailment earlier the Special Investigation Team (SIT) accusing 4 chap accused successful the Dharmasthala lawsuit of harassing him and his household members. In summation to Chinna, activists Mahesh Shetty Thimarody, Girish Mattannavar, Jayant, and Sujatha Bhat are different accused successful the Dharmasthala case.
Meanwhile, the Opposition BJP has demanded a CBI probe into the occurrence to unearth the truth.
In the ailment filed astatine the SIT presumption successful Belthangady connected Monday, June 15, Chinna said helium precocious filed a writ petition seeking absorption to the SIT for submission of the last study earlier the Belthangady tribunal successful transportation with his complaint.
A 3,900-page preliminary study was submitted to the Belthangady tribunal successful which the SIT accused Chinna, Thimarody, Mattannavar, Jayant, and Bhat of filing a mendacious ailment earlier the court, and besides accused Chinna of giving a mendacious connection connected oath earlier the magistrate. On January 3, 2026, the tribunal had directed the SIT to taxable its last report.
Following the writ petition, Chinna’s comparative Purushottam received a telephone connected June 12 from a media house, which asked him astir who gave funds for the writ petition and who was down the writ petition. The media location besides asked for Chinna’s interaction fig stating that it wanted to talk to him. That night, Ravi, different comparative of Chinnaiah, received a telephone telephone from Mattannavar, who asked Ravi the aforesaid questions that the media location had posed. Mattannavar besides sought Chinna’s interaction number, the ailment by Chinna said.
The code and tenor of their questions were of those of harassment to retreat the writ petition, Chinna alleged, further claiming that they were trying to hinder the probe and unit him to halt his ineligible fight. Their queries were causing fearfulness successful the minds of his household members, helium said. Purushottam and Ravi were premier witnesses successful the lawsuit and Mattannavar and the different accused were trying to harass them and their household members, Chinna alleged.
Chinna has asked the SIT to instrumentality enactment against Mattannavar and different accused persons.
Meanwhile, alleging that determination was a conspiracy to defame the pilgrimage centre of Dharmasthala, C. T. Ravi, BJP MLC, has written to the Chief Minister seeking that the occurrence beryllium handed implicit to CBI for an enquiry to unearth the conspiracy. In the letter, helium said determination were allegations that ₹200 crore had been pumped successful to rake up a controversy. He maintained that lone a CBI probe could bring retired the information arsenic immoderate of those allegedly progressive successful the occurrence were from different States too.
Chief Whip of the Opposition successful the Legislative Council N. Ravi Kumar excessively urged the State authorities to manus implicit the Dharmasthala contented to the CBI for a “comprehensive inquiry” arsenic the occurrence had inter-State ramifications and a imaginable overseas hand.
