Lingayat seer Shivamurthy Murugha Sharanaru, the previous pontiff of a outstanding mutt in Karnataka’s Chitradurga district accused of sexually assaulting minor women, raped a 13-year-old lady a number of occasions after calling her to his room at evening between 2013 and 2015, in response to the police’s cost sheet filed within the case.
The 64-year-old seer would summon {the teenager} after everybody went to mattress and rape her and ensured she left earlier than the others awoke, the cost sheet stated.
Sharanaru, who has been accused of sexually assaulting at the least two women finding out in a highschool run by Jagadguru Murugarajendra Vidyapeetha Mutt, is at present in Chitradurga jail after he was arrested below the Safety of Kids from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act on September 1. He was arrested every week after an FIR was registered on August 27.
On October 27, the investigation workforce submitted a 694-page cost sheet earlier than the district’s second further and classes court docket within the case and named the seer and two extra accused in it.
In its cost sheet, a replica of which HT has seen, police have offered an in depth account of the assault shared by the girl, who was 13 on the time of the incident.
The survivor detailed how she was summoned by the seer to his room each evening and sexually assaulted earlier than being despatched again to her hostel at 4.30am or 5am.
“My mom handed away resulting from an sickness in 2012. I used to be finding out at school 7… my father enrolled me to Murugha Mutt’s Priyadarshini Excessive Faculty the place I stayed at Akka Mahadevi hostel run….” she stated, in response to the cost sheet.
The girl stated Shruti and Apoorva have been the wardens when she joined the hostel. “We didn’t face any points then,” she stated, including that bother started in 2013-2014 when Rashmi took over because the hostel warden.
Rashmi, youthful pontiff Basavaraditya Swami, mutt hostel head Parama Shivaiah, and mutt authorized adviser Gangadhraiah are amongst those that have been interrogated within the case. Whereas Rashmi’s and Parama Shivaiah’s identify have been included within the cost sheet, the others have been dropped, police stated.
“Rashmi used to ask me to go to the seer to gather fruits and cash after 9pm. I went to see him two to 3 occasions with one other lady. After some time, the opposite lady refused. I’d go to his room via the again door, after dinner and after everybody had slept,” the girl stated.
“He used to provide me dry fruits and goodies. He would ask if anybody noticed me going to his room. He would then ask me to take away my garments. He used to take away his garments too. He would make me sit on his lap and contact my non-public components inappropriately after which have intercourse with me,” she added.
“The hostel gate could be locked and I’d take the keys from Vijayamma, the safety guard… I don’t keep in mind the variety of occasions I noticed him,” she stated. Vijayamma has not been questioned to this point.
After a probe started within the case, a workforce headed by deputy superintendent of police (DSP) H R Anil Kumar recognized the girl and satisfied her to provide her assertion, a police officer stated.