A former hygiene worker, who claimed that dozens of unknown bodies were buried in cases of suspected deaths in Dharmasthala under the Kannada district of Karnataka between 1995 and 2014, appearing before a magistrate’s court in Belthangadi to make a statement on Friday.
Based on the allegations of the former cleanliness worker’s Dharmasthala to be involved in the disposal of bodies in suspicious deaths, the police filed the first information report (FIR) on July 4, but sought an official statement from an unknown worker under the Criminal Procedure Code to certify the allegations and find a direction for investigation.
Unknown former sanitation workers wearing a mask in the court and appeared with their advocates. The man’s advocate, Ojasvi Gowda and Sachin Deshpande had accused the police, media and courts of “secret burial” in letters.
Karnataka Home Minister Ji Parmeshwar had earlier said that a formal investigation in the case had not started as the cleanliness had not appeared in the court to give a statement to the worker. However, the cleanliness worker’s advocates argued that the FIR was sufficient for an investigation.
The FIR was registered under Section 211 (A) of the Indian Justice, which placed the complainant to submit all the details about his allegations to the complainant.
After the FIR, a release issued by the Dakshin Kannada police stated that the complainant said “he has settled many bodies, and is currently suffering from the guilty consciousness” and “he has agreed to detect the places where the bodies were settled if they and their family are protected.”
According to the complaint, the person fled to a neighboring state after 2014, for fear of his life and threat to the family. He has requested that he be given police protection, provoking bodies, and alleged deaths should be investigated.
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The complainant alleged that his supervisor beaten him and threatened him in 1998 when he refused to bury the bodies and suggested informing the police. He also claimed that he was forced to burn some bodies using diesel and others were buried at various places around Dharmasthala.
He said, “I have buried hundreds of bodies, and the funeral was not performed honorable. The guilt is haunting me, and I believe the funeral should be performed to give a respectable farewell to the deceased,” he first said in a letter sent to the police through his advocates.
The complainant has claimed that the crime temple may have been committed by persons associated with the administration of the city Dharmasthala.
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