The Magadi police on Friday submitted a 216-page cost sheet and named 4 accused in reference to the suicide of Kanchugal Bandemutt pontiff on Friday on the judicial Justice of the Peace of the primary class in Chitradurga.
The pontiff of the Kanchugal Bandemutt died by suicide on October 24 in his room.
The three-page dying notice written by the pontiff alleged that the accused used to blackmail him by recording nude movies by way of video chat.
Within the dying notice, the pontiff alleged a conspiracy was being hatched by a bunch of individuals, together with one other pontiff, towards him.
Primarily based on the dying notice, Magadi Police performed an investigation and submitted 216 pages cost sheet containing an announcement of 72 witnesses to the case, stated the senior officer in command of the investigation.
“The case was registered towards 4 accused together with a pontiff and an engineering pupil,” stated Magadi police inspector B Ravi.
“The engineering pupil Neelambike, recognized to the pontiff, hatched a conspiracy together with Kannur mutt pontiff and second accused Mrutyunjaya swami, third accused advocate Mahadevaiah and fourth accused B C Suresh,” the officer added.
Throughout the investigation, she instructed police that she held a grudge towards the pontiff after he “spoke unwell” about one other pontiff.
She hatched a plan and later approached Mrutyunjaya swami, who additionally held a grudge towards the deceased.
Based on the cost sheet (the HT has seen it ), the conspiracy was hatched in February 2022 and movies of the pontiff in a compromising place had been recorded in April 2022.
Then, they demanded an enormous amount of cash from the pontiff to hush up the difficulty.
Unable to bear the torture the 44-year-old pontiff dedicated suicide, the police alleged within the cost sheet.
All three accused are in judicial custody, whereas the fourth accused BC Suresh, a photographer by career, is at giant.
Investigating officer Ravi stated the accused was hiding in one other state and efforts on to nab him quickly.