The GO, dated July 19, was shared with the press on Sunday.
The Particular Investigation Crew will likely be headed by Pranav Mohanty, Director Normal of Police, Inner Safety Division. Its different members embrace Further Commissioner of Police (Recruitment) M N Anucheth, Deputy Commissioner of Police (CAR Headquarters) Soumya Latha, and Superintendent of Police (Inner Safety Division) Jitendra Kumar Dayama.
The transfer is available in response to a letter from Karnataka State Ladies's Fee Chairperson Nagalakshmi Choudhary, who cited a court docket assertion by a person claiming that “lots of of our bodies had been buried within the Dharmasthala space.”
The Fee additionally took severe observe of media reviews highlighting the invention of a human cranium and statements made by the household of a lacking medical pupil.
The Fee mentioned these reports-alongside the court docket testimony-point to a “disturbing sample of abuse, unnatural deaths, and disappearances of girls and feminine college students spanning greater than 20 years.” A case has already been registered underneath Part 211(a) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) on the Dharmasthala Police Station.The SIT has been empowered to research not solely the current case but additionally all associated circumstances registered or to be registered in different police stations throughout the state.
The Director Normal of Police (DGP) will assign such circumstances to the SIT and supply mandatory personnel.
The SIT will operate utilizing sources from the Dakshina Kannada District Police Workplace and is anticipated to submit common updates to the DGP.
A complete investigation report will likely be submitted to the federal government by means of the DGP on the earliest.
