Karnataka’s Opposition BJP on Monday demanded the Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) probe the Dharmasthala secret burials case and introduced a large “Dharmasthala Chalo” rally, days after the complainant within the case was arrested for allegedly giving false info by the Particular Investigation Staff (SIT) inquiring into his claims.
The SIT began the investigation after C N Chinnaiah, a former sanitation employee, filed a police grievance in July claiming that he had been pressured to secretly bury a number of our bodies of suspected sexual assault victims within the temple city between 1998 and 2014.
BJP state president B Y Vijayendra stated that solely an NIA probe would instill confidence among the many public and devotees. An enormous rally shall be held at Dharmasthala on September 1 to press for this demand, he stated, urging the Hindu group throughout the state to take part within the occasion.
He alleged that the state authorities’s dealing with of the case and its subsequent handover to the SIT had tarnished the popularity of Dharmasthala. “A radical investigation by the NIA is important to uncover the organisation and malicious forces behind the row,” he stated.
Vijayendra additional alleged that some forces might conspire in opposition to different Hindu temples in the same method.
The announcement got here on the day Jayanagar MLA C Okay Ramamurthy of the BJP led a rally to Dharmasthala. A person died in a highway accident throughout the rally. “As soon as we return from Dharmasthala, we are going to guarantee that we provide him our respects,” he stated.
Within the just lately concluded Monsoon Session of the state legislature, the Opposition had raised the allegations of Dharmasthala being defamed.
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JD(S) legislators too are taking out rallies to Dharmasthala to sentence the “conspiracy to defame” the temple city. Former minister Sa Ra Mahesh, who together with one other former minister C S Puttaraju visited the city along with his supporters on Monday, instructed reporters that the Authorities mustn’t have “swiftly” handed over the case to the SIT.
“There was a conspiracy to defame the city. Our demand is that folks behind the conspiracy are arrested,” he stated.
On August 23, Congress MLA M A Gopalaswamy visited Dharmasthala alongside along with his supporters. “The BJP desires to politicise it. They need to let the investigation proceed,” he stated, including that BJP MP and Dharmadhikari of the temple city, Veerendra Heggade, himself had welcomed the investigation.
The Authorities stated final week within the Meeting that it had instituted the SIT probe to convey out the reality. The BJP then staged a walkout accusing the Authorities of being a part of the “conspiracy to tarnish the picture” of the temple city.