The confession of a person claiming to work in a pilgrimage center Dharmasthala in Karnataka, India’s southern state of Karnataka, has unveiled a scam, including allegations of hundreds of murders and rapes.
On 3 July, the former cleanliness worker made a statement to the police.
The statement said, “I am filing this complaint with a very heavy heart and to overcome an audacity of guilt … I cannot do those corpses, I will be buried with them.”
The person, who belongs to the Dalit community, is a historically marginalized group from the lowest level of India’s centuries -old discriminatory race, which worked in the Dharmasthal temple between 2014 and 2014.
Hey said that he worked near the Nathravati River, which flows close to the Dharmasthala temple, until things take a dark turn.
In the complaint, a copy of which was of lakes by DW, the person said that he had started notice “dead bodies” near the river.
“Among them, women had more bodies,” the complaint said.
It was not immediately clarified how the dead body arrived where the man found them.
‘Forced to settle hundreds of bodies’
The man thought that there were cases of suicide and drowning. However, he soon realized that he was blurred.
He said, “Many female corpses were found without clothes or underumration,” she said in her complaint.
“Some core shows showed clear signs of sexual harassment and violence; injuries or strangled scars showed violence on the same bodies.”
Whistbalore said he was forced to settle hundreds of bodies, many of which were seen.
He included a specially disturbing incident to a teenage girl, who remains in memory of her.
“She was wearing a school uniform shirt. However, her skirts and undress were missing. Her body showed obvious signs of sexual harassment,” according to her complaint. “He had strangled marks on his neck. He instructed me to dig a pit and bury him with a school bag.”
The man wrote about “extremely cruel” murders that took place in the city near the temple.
He said, “People with poor and luck who had come to the Dharmasthala region to beg, were systematically murdered … They would be tied to chairs in the rooms and suffocated from the back of using the towel. The thesis murdered,” he said.
Why is the former worker in the temple now come forward?
Without identifying anyone, the complainant alleged that his temple supervisors did not report the case to the authorities. Instead, he claimed that he beat him and forced him to “tell about the thesis bodies.”
He alleged that his supervisor threatened him saying: “We will cut you into pieces; your body wants to be buried like other corpses; we will sacrifice all your family members.”
The person explained how he escaped from Dharmasthala in 2014 when a minor girl in her family was allegedly sexually assaulted by a person associated with temple supervisors.
Hey said that he wants criminals of crimes to be held accountable. Hey said that heh helps to take out the body of the victims so that they can “get proper respect and funeral rites.”
Officials started rehearsal in mass murders
On July 22, the Karnataka government formed a special investigation team (SIT) to investigate mass murders and allegations against temple officials.
It is a senior advocate and human rights activist S. Balan can do after Balan, led a delegation of lawyers to meet Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah.,
“There will be judicial intervention, but it all depends on public outrage,” Balan said.
The new revelations have inspired girls’ family members in Dharmasthala who went missing or died in mysterious circumstances to request unresolved cases to reopen – some dates in the 1980s.
In 2012, the family of a 17 -year -old girl allegedly raped and murdered has asked the government to investigate the case of her daughter under the SIT.
Former stenographer of the Central Bureau of Investigation, Sujath Bhat, whose daughter Ananya Bhat mysteriously disappeared in 2003, has filed a new complaint with the policy.
Balan said, “There are at least 367 such cases of missing or dead in Dharmasthala.”
K Parshwanath Jain, a spokesman at Dharmasthala, said the temple administration supported the “fair and transparent investigation”.
“A case was recently registered at Dharmasthala police station, claiming that several bodies were buried, which created widespread debate, speculation and confusion at the national level,” Herr said in a statement.
To provide evidence for his claims, the pre-activist said that he recently presented photos to one of the skeletal remains to one of the skeletal remains.
Advocate Ojsavi Gowda, who represents the complainant, told DW that “Dharmasthala is near the police poles where the complainant claims to be buried the bodies, but has also failed to do it.”
Edited by: Keith Walker
