New Delhi, July 19 -- Communist Party of India (CPI) Rajya Sabha MP from Kerala, P Sandosh Kumar, on Saturday wrote to Union Home Minister Amit Shah, urging a National Investigation Agency (NIA) probe into the Dharmasthala burials case.

He alleged that despite mass protests and years of appeals, the Karnataka government has failed to constitute a credible Special Investigation Team (SIT). The so-called 'Acquittal Review Committee' was never operationalised meaningfully, he said.

On July 4, Dharmasthala police in Dakshina Kannada district registered a case, a day after a former temple sanitation worker complained that he was forced to bury many bodies in the jurisdiction of Dharmasthala village more than a decade ago.

"Most chilling is ...