Dharmasthala case: Complainant records voluntary statement; 'admits to making false claims'

NEW DELHI: The voluntary connection of CN Chinnaiah, the complainant successful the Dharmasthala wide burial case, was recorded connected Saturday evening by the Additional Civil Judge and Judicial First Class Magistrate successful Belthangady, officials said connected Sunday.The connection was taken nether Section 183 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), PTI reported, citing constabulary sources. According to the sources, Chinnaiah admitted successful his connection that his earlier claims—including allegations of aggregate rapes, murders, and burials successful Dharmasthala implicit 2 decades—were "false" and made astatine the behest of "certain individuals." The constabulary did not disclose the names of these individuals owed to method reasons.Also Read | ‘Coerced to hide 100 bodies, mostly women and minors’: SIT finds 15 bones successful Karnataka's Dharmasthala wood pit Chinnaiah had antecedently been arrested by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) connected charges of perjury, for allegedly giving mendacious statements during tribunal proceedings connected July 11. He besides told the tribunal that the skull helium had presented arsenic "evidence" connected July 11 was handed to him by Vittala Gowda, the uncle of 1 of the alleged victims.Meanwhile, Karnataka lawman main curate DK Shivakumar connected Saturday said the authorities government's lone nonsubjective was to marque radical "aware of the facts" successful transportation with the case.

Shivakumar was responding to Dharmasthala temple Dharmadhikari Veerendra Heggade's connection wherever helium had expressed his gratitude to the authorities for constituting the SIT successful the case, owed to which the information is coming out.Also Read | Dharmasthala wide burial case: SIT finds 7 quality skulls successful forest; imaginable termination site, accidental sources"Let the study come. I person seen his (Veerendra Heggade) connection successful the media. There is nary constituent successful speaking connected the substance until the last study comes. People whitethorn talk politically, but I can't bash it being a portion of the government. Either location curate oregon main curate volition marque an authoritative connection aft the study comes," Shivakumar said successful effect to a question.