India, Aug. 24 -- Former Karnataka Chief Minister and BJP leader Basavaraj Bommai on Saturday pressed the state government to hand over the ongoing Dharmasthala case to the National Investigation Agency (NIA), alleging that the probe so far has been compromised.

Bommai said that unless the investigation is transferred, the public might assume that the Congress government itself is complicit. "To expose the real conspiracy, those named by Chinnayya must be arrested and interrogated. Otherwise, people will think the state government is part of it. To avoid such doubts, the case must go to the NIA," Bommai posted on X.

The former CM strongly criticised the Special Investigation Team (SIT) for what he described as a flawed approach from the...