Synopsis: The report came after the complainant produced a skull to the police in July 2025, claiming that he had been forced under death threats to dispose of hundreds of bodies, many showing signs of sexual violence and brutal murders, in Dharmasthala.

The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the alleged mass burials in Dharmasthala has named six people, including activists, as accused in its report filed before a local court in the Dakshina Kannada district.

SIT head, Director-General of Police (Internal Security Division and Cyber Command) Pronab Mohanty, submitted the 3,900-page report to the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court at Beltangady on Thursday, 20 November.

Activists Mahesh Shetty Thimarody, Girish Mattannavar, T Jayanth and Vittal Gowda, who had demanded the regi

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