Police sources revealed that the skull initially produced by the whistleblower was fake. He was later arrested on charges of perjury and furnishing false evidence.
In a fresh twist in the Dharmasthala mass burial case, the key whistleblower was arrested on Saturday for allegedly misleading the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Karnataka police by providing false information, sources told India Today TV.
The former sanitation worker with the Dharmasthala temple administration, who had claimed to have buried 70–80 bodies at multiple locations, was arrested after being questioned overnight.
Out of the suspected 15 spots where he claimed to the SIT that he had buried several minors and women between 1998 and 2014, only the skeletal remains of one male were found at spot number 6.
In fact, a few days back the swirling controversy over alleged mass burials in Karnataka’s temple town of Dharmasthala has taken yet another dramatic turn, as the masked whistleblower at the centre of the storm has retracted his earlier claims, telling the Special Investigation Team (SIT) that he was coerced into fabricating his sensational testimony.
According to SIT, the man disclosed that he had been living in Tamil Nadu since 2014.
In 2023, three individuals allegedly brought him back to Dharmasthala and pressured him into issuing explosive statements about burying “hundreds of bodies.” “They gave me a shroud and instructed me to claim that I had buried women and girls in large numbers. They even told me how to present myself in court,” he reportedly told investigators.
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