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, police sources said. 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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The SIT investigating the allegations of multiple murders, rapes and burials in the temple town of Dharmasthala, has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[158131,4,455,450,451,15,158130,54034,829,3,16,5986,54069,452,453],"class_list":["post-304630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-21-november-2025","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-live","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-india-news-news","tag-india-today-latest-news","tag-latest-news-today","tag-latest-news","tag-news","tag-times-now","tag-today-news","tag-top-news-headlines","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}