A court has remanded the complainant in the Dharmasthala case to 14 days of judicial custody. He has been taken to Shivamogga jail following the order.
A Mangaluru court has extended SIT custody of complainant C N Chinnaiah, who alleged murders and secret burials in Dharmasthala, till September 6. Villagers have offered fresh inputs to guide investigators to suspected burial sites.
Dharmasthala mass burial case took a turn when the complainant witness admitted in Belthangady court that the skull he produced was not from the buried body, after which SIT officials immediately took him into custody.
