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October 31, 2025, 02:27 PM - 4 min read
Meanwhile, the All-India Feminist Alliance (ALIFA), part of the National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM), has written to Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah demanding a comprehensive, independent probe into decades of rapes, murders, and suspicious deaths of women in Dharmasthala, Dakshina Kannada district.
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October 25, 2025, 02:49 PM - 3 min read
Mahesh Shetty Thimarody, a prominent figure in the campaign, provided shelter to Chinnaiah at his Ujire residence days before the complaint.
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September 28, 2025, 04:46 PM - 2 min read
Police sources said Chinnaiah admitted that both his complaint — which alleged multiple rapes, murders, and burials over two decades in Dharmasthala — and the testimony he had given were entirely false.
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September 17, 2025, 05:20 PM - 2 min read
Although the investigation had covered 17 locations the complainant had pointed out, nothing concrete had been found, prompting the team to conduct a DNA analysis on a small quantity of bones they had previously recovered.
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August 28, 2025, 10:38 AM - 2 min read
The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the alleged Dharmasthala mass burial case has widened the scope of its inquiry, adding ten fresh charges under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) against the whistleblower, Chinnayya. The new charges relate to perjury, forgery and fabrication of evidence.
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August 26, 2025, 12:37 PM - 2 min read
According to SIT officials, Chinnaiah, who was the whistleblower of the Dharmasthala case, had been staying at Thimarody's house for the last two months.
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August 25, 2025, 02:22 PM - 2 min read
The yatra follows a recent controversy that erupted after a man, later identified as CN Chinnaiah, claimed to have buried a number of bodies, including those of sexually assaulted women, in Dharmasthala.
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August 23, 2025, 11:02 AM - 3 min read
The Belthangady Court on August 23 sent the complainant in the case to 10 days of custody under the Special Investigation Team (SIT).
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August 14, 2025, 07:52 PM - 5 min read
His remarks came during a discussion in the Assembly, where BJP legislators criticised the government’s handling of the investigation and alleged inaction against what they called a "slender campaign" targeting Dharmasthala and the temple there.
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August 11, 2025, 04:58 PM - 2 min read
Padmalatha, a second-year PU student at SDM College in Ujire, disappeared on December 22, 1986, and her decomposed body was later found near the Neriya stream on February 17, 1987.
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August 7, 2025, 04:07 PM - 2 min read
The plea, filed against an ex parte interim order of a local court, questions the legality of the HC directive, which directed as many as 390 media houses to remove nearly 9,000 links and stories related to the Dharamsthala burial case.
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August 3, 2025, 01:43 PM - 3 min read
RTI findings reveal Belthangady police deleted death records, sparking mass burial allegations. SIT probe likely to lead to exhumations and deeper investigation.
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