Police protecting website numbers 9 to 12 in Dharmasthala earlier than digging on August 2, 2025. The SIT had up to now dug eight of the 13 websites proven by the complainant. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
In a mail addressed to the SIT workplace and some SIT officers, advocate Ananya Gowda claimed that her shopper has confided that he was threatened by Sub-Inspector Manjunath Gowda within the SIT camp workplace at Belthangady on August 1.
The Sub-Inspector threatened the complainant about dire penalties that the whistleblower should face owing to the criticism filed by him. The police officer added that the complainant should spend extra time within the jail and that the police will take him of their custody quickly, the advocate alleged.
After these threats, the advocate alleged, the Sub-Inspector instructed the complainant to make a press release on digicam to retract, and disown his criticism. He was instructed to implicate unknown individuals as chargeable for his criticism. The SI recorded the assertion coerced out of the complainant on his cell phone, the advocate alleged.
The advocate stated they (workforce of advocates) had been shocked over the conduct of Sub-Inspector Manjunath Gowda. Seeking speedy exclusion or elimination of Mr. Gowda from the investigation, the advocate stated the step is important to permit the complainant to talk freely and with out concern in the course of the ongoing investigation.
The SIT is but to react to the allegation.
On August 2, the SIT dug up website numbers 9 to 12 in Dharmasthala.
The complainant has proven 13 websites close to the washing ghat the place he claims to have buried our bodies.
The SIT seized about 15 bones from website quantity 6, however didn’t discover skeletal stays within the remaining seven websites that had been dug up until August 1.
The digging is being achieved within the presence of Assistant Commissioner, Puttur, Stella Varghese, forensic docs and scene-of-crime officers.
Published – August 02, 2025 04:26 pm IST
