The Karnataka Police have registered a brand new first info report (FIR) towards Shivamurthy Muruga Sharanaru, 64, the pinnacle pontiff of the Murugarajendra Mutt in Chitradurga below the Safety of Youngsters towards Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act on the idea of a criticism filed by a girl who labored on the Mutt.
In accordance with the criticism, the seer allegedly assaulted the 2 kids of the girl who have been staying at a hostel run by the Mutt. The FIR has named seven individuals, together with the warden of the hostel Rashmi S, 26.
The seer was arrested on September 1 in reference to an FIR filed by the police on the idea of a criticism filed on August 26 by a baby safety officer on behalf of two ladies who left a hostel run by the mutt in July this 12 months over alleged harassment by the seer and the hostel warden.
On September 22, a particular Pocso courtroom in Chitradurga rejected the bail pleas of the seer and the hostel warden within the FIR filed on August 26.
In the midst of the listening to of the case, the courtroom was knowledgeable by a particular public prosecutor that the seer might have dedicated related crimes towards different inmates of the hostel connected to the Mutt and that granting bail to the seer might impede investigations.
“The objections of discovered Public Prosecutor that petitioner being Peetadhipathi (head) of Mutt is politically, socially, financially highly effective is to be thought of critically and can’t be brushed apart, that too contemplating the details and circumstances of the case…,” particular courtroom choose B Ok Komala stated.
“Within the objections of the discovered Particular Public Prosecutor and likewise within the remand utility it has been famous that, there are allegations that the petitioner (seer) has dedicated related offences towards different inmates of the hostel and an in depth investigation needs to be performed on this regard,” the particular courtroom famous in a September 22 order.
The warden “by willful misrepresentation was sending the victims to the personal room of the accused No.1 with a view to facilitate the accused No.1 to commit the offence of sexual assault upon them. Subsequently, the substances as contemplated below Part 16 of Safety of Youngsters from Sexual Offences Act are prima facie made out,” the particular courtroom stated whereas rejecting the warden’s bail plea.