Security personnel near a site of an alleged burial at Dharmasthala on Monday.
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Director-General and Inspector-General of Police M.A. Saleem has asked the Special Investigation Team (SIT), probing the alleged burial of bodies in Dharmasthala village, to also investigate a complaint about the police allegedly burying a girl’s body without registering a case in the village.
In the complaint filed with the Dharmasthala police on August 4, one T. Jayant alleged that the body of a 15-year-old girl was found lying on the roadside in the village between 2002 and 2003. The police buried it without registering a case and conducting post-mortem as mandatorily required. A police official told local people that it was the body of a 40-year-old woman who committed suicide.
Mr. Jayant had earlier taken his complaint to the SIT on August 2 and the SIT in turn asked him to approach the Dharmasthala police. After the Dharmasthala police received the complaint as a petition on August 4, Mr. Saleem ordered it to be transferred to the SIT.
Mr. Saleem also transferred to the SIT a case pertaining to the discovery of skeletal remains in burial site no. 6 on July 31 during the exhumation. It was among the 13 burial sites shown by the 50-year-old former sanitation worker to the SIT for exhuming.
No skeletal remains found on Tuesday
The SIT which dug sites no. 11 and no. 12 in Banglagudde, near the bathing ghat of Dharmasthala, did not find any skeletal remains on Tuesday. Site no. 13 will be dug on Wednesday, sources said. This site is also in the vicinity of the bathing ghat.
The process of exhuming bodies began on July 29. After site no. 6, skeletal remains were found in a new unmarked location near site no. 11 on Monday.
Published – August 06, 2025 06:00 am IST
