India, Nov. 22 -- The SIT investigating the allegations of multiple murders, rapes and burials in the temple town of Dharmasthala, has submitted the charge sheet before a court in Dakshina Kannada district, said Police. The Special Investigation Team submitted the 3,900-page report to the Judicial First-Class Magistrate Court at Beltangady on Thursday, under Section 215 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), naming six persons as accused, they said.

Mahesh Shetty Timarodi, Girish Mattannavar, T Jayanth, Vittal Gowda - activists who had earlier backed the registration of the FIR in the case - also Sujatha Bhat and one more person (reportedly complainant Chinnaiah), have been named as the accused. A controversy erupted after a m...