The Chitradurga rural police on Thursday night time arrested former zilla panchayat president Sowbagya Basavarajan in reference to a conspiracy case filed by Shree Jagadguru Murugharajendra (SJM) mutt, officers mentioned on Friday.
Within the first week of November, an audio clip went viral on social media the place a person could possibly be heard telling a girl to file a sexual harassment case in opposition to SJM pontiff Shivamurthy Sharanaru.
The SJM mutt pontiff, dealing with two Pocso instances in opposition to him, is in judicial custody since September 2.
Based mostly on the audio clip, SJM in-charge pontiff Basavaprabhu Swamiji filed a police criticism on November 9, alleging that the instances in opposition to Sharanaru are faux and folks accused behind it ought to be arrested.
The police mentioned they recognized the prime accused as Basavarajendran, a instructor at SJM academic establishment on November 10.
The audio went viral through which Basavarajendran may be heard influencing the sufferer on request from her mom to file a sexual harassment criticism in opposition to the pontiff.
Within the audio clip, Basavarajendra could possibly be heard calling the minor sufferer and requesting her to file a case which she initially refused.
The police booked a conspiracy case in opposition to the sufferer’s mom, former administrator of SJM mutt S Okay Basavarajan, and his partner Sowbagya.
Police additionally detained the Pocso sufferer’s mom on November 11 and launched her after 21 days.
Sowbagya fled after she was named within the FIR. She additionally filed for anticipatory bail, which was rejected by the Chitradurga periods court docket.
In the meantime on Thursday, Exercising powers below the Non secular Establishments (Prevention Of Misuse) Act, 1988, decide Chitradurga second extra and periods court docket decide B Okay Komala on Thursday ordered Sri Jagadguru Murugharajendra Mutt (SJM) pontiff Shivamurthy Sharana to not intrude with any affairs of SJM mutt or SJM academic establishments.