India, Oct. 31 -- The Karnataka High Court on Thursday temporarily halted the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probe into explosive allegations of "multiple murders, rapes, and burials" in the temple town of Dharmasthala, granting an interim stay until November 12.

Justice Mohammad Nawaz issued the order while hearing a petition filed by activists Girish Mattanavar, Mahesh Thimmarodi, Jayant T, and Vittal Gowda. The four had earlier supported former sanitation worker C. N. Chinnaiah, who first alleged that several people had been killed and buried in Dharmasthala over the past two decades, news agency PTI reported.

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The petitioners ...