Dharmasthala Mass Burials Explained: The 'Secret Burials' And Missing Girls

The whistleblower has provided photographic evidence of skeletal remains to back his claims. He also narrated the stories of the victims of this horrifying tale, including a schoolgirl who was buried in a school uniform and showed signs of sexual abuse, as well as a 20-year-old woman whose face was burned with acid.


The Karnataka government has constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate grave allegations of multiple murders, sexual assaults, and cases of missing women in the Dharmasthala region of Dakshina Kannada district spanning the past two decades. The harrowing details of murders in the temple town came to light after a former sanitation worker revealed in court that he was forced to dispose of over 100 bodies between 1998 and 2014. The bodies he buried were primarily of women who had been raped and murdered.


The Special Investigation Team will be led by Pranav Mohanty, Director General of Police, Internal Security Division. The team includes Additional Commissioner of Police (Recruitment) M N Anucheth, Deputy Commissioner of Police (CAR Headquarters) Soumya Latha, and Superintendent of Police (Internal Security Division) Jitendra Kumar Dayama.


The whistleblower has provided photographic evidence of skeletal remains to back his claims. He also narrated the stories of the victims of this horrifying tale, including a schoolgirl who was buried in a school uniform and showed signs of sexual abuse, as well as a 20-year-old woman whose face was burned with acid.


The whistleblower, who fled Dharmasthala in December 2014 after a minor and his own family was assaulted by a person linked to the people coercing him to bury their victims, returned recently driven by his guilt to file his account along with his employee ID. He has also claimed that the perpetrators behind these killings are linked to the temple administration in Dharmasthala and hold considerable influence in the area.

He has also reportedly submitted a sealed envelope naming the accused to the Supreme Court Advocate KV Dhananjay in the event that he is harmed. The sanitation worker's testimony has reignited a firestorm of demands for justice, with the skeletons he unearthed both literal and figurative, laying bare a potential web of systemic violence and cover-up.


The Dharmasthala Gram Panchayat has denied any wrongdoing, stating that records of all unclaimed burials since the 1980s are properly maintained and audited.


The Karnataka State Women's Commission Chairperson Nagalakshmi Choudhary has taken serious note of media reports highlighting the discovery of a human skull and statements made by the family of a missing medical student.


The Commission said these reports—alongside the court testimony—point to a "disturbing pattern of abuse, unnatural deaths, and disappearances of women and female students spanning more than 20 years."


More than two weeks after shocking allegations, the powerful temple administration of Sri Kshetra Dharmasthala has issued its first official response.


In a statement released on Sunday, the temple authority expressed support for a “fair and transparent” investigation and expressed hope that the SIT would uncover the truth.


A case has already been registered under Section 211(a) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) at the Dharmasthala Police Station.


The SIT has been empowered to investigate not only the present case but also all related cases registered or to be registered in other police stations across the state.


The Director General of Police (DGP) will assign such cases to the SIT and provide necessary personnel.


The SIT will function using resources from the Dakshina Kannada District Police Office and is expected to submit regular updates to the DGP.


A comprehensive investigation report will be submitted to the government through the DGP at the earliest.


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