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 "indicate that for over 20 years, serious acts of assault, murder, rape, unnatural deaths, and disappearances have occurred involving many women and female students". The commission's chairperson Nagalakshmi Chowdhury wrote to CM Siddaramaiah asking for an SIT, stating, "There are reports about serious crimes of sexual harassment, murders, rapes, unnatural deaths and missing persons complaints for the last two decades, which needs detailed probe." The SIT, now notified, will be led by Pranav Mohanty, DGP, internal security division, Bengaluru. Other members of the team included MN Anucheth, DIG of police, recruitment; Soumyalatha, DCP, CAR headquarters, Bengaluru City; and Jitendra Kumar Dayama, SP, internal security division, Bengaluru....