Mangaluru (Karnataka), Nov 20 (PTI) The SIT probing into allegations of "multiple murders, rapes and burials" in the temple town of Dharmasthala, on Thursday submitted the charge sheet before a court in Dakshina Kannada district, police sources said.

The Special Investigation Team submitted the report to the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court at Beltangady, which is said to have about 3,900-pages, 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, police sources said.

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