The High Court of Karnataka has ordered issue of notice to the State government and the Special Investigation Team (SIT) on a petition, which has sought direction to SIT to complete investigation in Dharmasthala case, while claiming that 200 crore was the budget for carrying out alleged false campaign against the Dharmasthala temple and prominent persons associated with it.
Justice Suraj Govindaraj ordered issue of notice on a petition filed by Chinna C.N alias Chinnaiah, 50, who had initially alleged that there were mass burial of dead bodies of sexually assaulted women pointing fingers at persons associated with the temple. He later retracted his allegations and told the trial court that his statements were false and he had made them “as instructed by a group of activists.”
Narrating how activists – Girish Mattennavar, Mahesh Shetty Thimarody, T. Jayant, Vittala Gowda, three YouTubers, a group of advocates from Bengaluru -- had allegedly lured him with money and later threatened to kill him and his wife, it has been claimed in the petition that he was told by the activists that they were receiving funds from Kerala and attempts were on to get a SIT constituted in Kerala before the Karnataka government does the same.
Chinnaiah has claimed in the petition that the activists were paying him in the range of 2,000 to 5,000 at regular intervals and that they had offered him to pay a total 50 lakh if he gave statement against D. Veerendra Heggade and others.
It has also been...
A Lawrenceville man will serve a year in prison and more on probation after pleading guilty to Medicaid fraud, officials say. Authorities say 47-year-old Averil Johnson used false claims for geneti...