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Mahesh Shetty Thimarody | Photo Credit: record photo
The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the Dharmasthala lawsuit filed a 3,900-page chargesheet against Chinnaiah, complainant successful the case, Mahesh Shetty Thimarody, Girish Mattennavar, T. Jayanth, and Vittala Gowda, each activists, and Sujatha Bhat, earlier a Belthangady tribunal successful Dakshina Kannada connected Thursday.
They person been charged with giving mendacious evidence, forgery and different offences, nether the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
Sections cited
It was filed earlier the Additional Civil Judge and JMFC C.H. Vijayendra. The tribunal has to instrumentality cognisance of the study related to offences nether Sections 227 (giving mendacious evidence), 228 (fabricating mendacious evidence), 229, 230 (giving oregon fabricating mendacious grounds with intent to procure condemnation of superior offence), 231 giving oregon fabricating mendacious grounds with intent to procure condemnation of offence punishable with imprisonment for life), 233 (using grounds known to beryllium false), 236 (false connection made successful declaration which is by instrumentality receivable arsenic evidence), 240 (giving mendacious accusation with respect to an offence), 248 (false complaint of offence made with intent to injure) and 336 (forgery) of the BNS.
The SIT volition record supplementary study aft receiving technological reports from Forensic Science Laboratory and different documents related to the case.
The Supreme Court connected May 5, 2025, had rejected the nationalist involvement litigation plea filed by Chinniah seeking probe into the burial of galore bodies successful Dharmasthala colony betwixt 1995 and 2014. Afterwards aboriginal filed a ailment earlier the Dharmasthala constabulary making the aforesaid allegations.
He aboriginal gave voluntary connection earlier the magistrate nether Section 183 of BNSS and produced a skull stating that it was that of a woman.
Skull not of woman
The SIT recovered that the skull produced by Chinnaiah was not of a pistillate but of a 32-year-old man. Except for partial skeletal remains of antheral persons astatine 2 places, the SIT did not find skeletal remains from respective places that were dug up. On August 23, the SIT arrested Chinniah for perjury connected August 23.
During his inquiry, Chinnaiah told SIT that helium got the skull from the 2012 rape and execution unfortunate Soujanya’s uncle Vittala Gowda and his (Mr. Gowda’s) member and helium produced the aforesaid earlier the magistrate.
He told the SIT that helium gave a mendacious ailment and mendacious voluntary connection nether unit from Mr. Thimarody and 3 activists. On his request, the tribunal recorded Chinnaiah’s voluntary connection nether Section 183 of BNSS for the 2nd time.
Chinnaiah’s revelations
In the written objection to the writ petition filed by Mr. Mattennavar and 3 others successful the High Court, the SIT said Chinnaiah revealed that 1 of the activists (among those who approached the High Court) was progressive successful a murder. In addition, Chinnaiah made galore caller revelations pointing retired the complicity of activists successful the case, the SIT stated.
The SIT besides gathered grounds against Sujatha Bhat for filing mendacious ailment earlier the Dharmasthala constabulary that her MBBS studying girl went missing from Dharmasthala. Ms. Bhat told SIT that she filed the ailment nether unit of Mr. Thimarody and 4 different activists.
