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The High Court of Karnataka connected Wednesday sought the State government’s effect connected a PIL petition, which has sought a absorption to the Special Investigation Team (SIT) for registering abstracted First Information Reports (FIRs) based connected claims by the petitioner connected the unnatural decease of 74 chartless persons successful Dharmasthala colony betwixt 1990 and 2021.
A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Vibhu Bakhru and Justice C.M. Poonacha passed the bid connected the petition by 48-year-old Kusumavathi, parent of Soujanya, who was raped and murdered adjacent Dharmasthala successful 2012 erstwhile she was 17.
It has been stated successful the petition that Ms. Kusumavathi connected October 11, 2025, submitted a practice to the SIT, which was constituted by the State authorities successful July 2025 for probing the alleged complaints of wide burials, indicating that nary due process was followed successful astatine slightest 74 instances of Unnatural Death Reports (UDRs) registered successful Dharmasthala betwixt 1990-2021.
In her practice to the SIT, the petitioner had claimed that bodies successful these 74 instances were buried wrong 24 hours of the decease indicating that nary process arsenic per the Code of Criminal Procedure (Cr.P.C) and the Karnataka (Investigation of Unnatural Deaths and Conduct Inquests), Rules, 2004, was followed, and hence necessitate a caller investigation.
