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 historic marginalized group from the lowest level of India’s centuries -old discriminatory race that he worked in the Dharmasthala 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 his complaint, a copy of which lakes by the DW, the man said that he started notices “the dead bodies” near the river.
The report said, “Among them, women had more bodies.”
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 the dead body was sad and drowning. However, he soon realized that he was blurred.
“Many women dead bodies were found without clothes or underumration,” she said in her statement.
“Some corps shows showed obvious signs of sexual harassment and violence – violence 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 man described 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 wanted the criminals of crimes to be held accountable, saying that he would help in provoking the body of the victims so that they could “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 Sujath Bhat of the Central Bureau of Investigation, whose daughter mysteriously disappeared in 2003, filed a new complaint with the policy.
Balan said, “There are at least 367 such cases of missing or dead in Dharmasthala.”
K. K., a spokesman of Dharmasthala, K. Parswana Jain said that 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 Ojasvi Gowda, who represented the complainant, told DW that “Dharmasthala police has visited the site where the complainant claimed to be buried by the complainant, but has also failed to do so.”
Edited by: Keith Walker
