K'taka govt sets up SIT to probe mass burial charges
Bengaluru, July 21 -- The Karnataka government has constituted a special investigation team (SIT) to probe allegations of mass burials, sexual assault, and disappearances of women in Dharmasthala area of Dakshina Kanna district over the last two decades, officials aware of the matter said on Sunday.
The government, in an order dated July 19, said it was forming the SIT following a recommendation from the Karnataka state commission for women. The panel's appeal was based on a media report, dated July 12, which detailed a family's complaint about their missing daughter and the court testimony of a sanitation worker who claimed to have buried multiple bodies in the temple town. According to the Commission, the report and sworn statement "indic...
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