Accused Lingayat seer sexually assaulted minors for over a decade: Police sources
Darpan News Desk IANS, 19 Sep, 2022 03:38 PM
Bengaluru, Sep 19 (IANS) The investigation into the rape accused Lingayat seer Shivamurthy Murugha Sharanaru has revealed that he allegedly sexually assaulted minor girls for over a decade, police sources said on Monday.
Shivamurthy Sharanaru is presently lodged in the district prison of Chitradurga.
The police are corroborating the shocking statements issued by several people against the accused seer's habit of sexually exploiting minors in the Chitradurga Murugha mutt for over 10 years.
Sharananda Swamiji, who was formerly with the Murugha mutt, has stated that there were more victims.
He also claimed that some of the victims had to get abortions, while others left the mutt hostel and disappeared.
He said that the accused seer used orphaned children in the mutt, who were called 'basava', for sexual favors.
The police also are investigating foreign trips made by the accused seer amidst accusations that he went to Thailand on a 'pleasure trip', the sources said.
There are also allegation that the accused had built a state-of-the-art bathroom, where he called the minors and assaulted them.
He had also constituted a group of boys to cater to his needs by convincing girls to cooperate with him.
According to the police, acting on a tip-off, a joint team of Sector-40 and cybercrime police stations raided a call centre running in South City Phase-1 and arrested 11 persons, who used to allegedly cheat residents of the US and Canada.
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The delegation has demanded that the police should avoid unilateral action and arrest the culprits as soon as possible, and take stern action against whoever is guilty without any discrimination.
Seven others were injured in the mishap, who have shifted to the BDK Hospital in Jhunjhunu. As per the locals, around 18 members of a family had gone to immerse the ashes of an elderly family member who passed away recently when their vehicle overturned.
Superintendent of Police, Rae Bareli, Shlok Kumar said that the main accused in the case is a minor and has been sent to a juvenile home, while six others, identified as Abhishek, Vikas Pasi, Mahendra Kumar, Hrithik Singh, Aman Singh and Yash Pratap are majors and they have been arrested.
Denying bail to the jeweller Dev Varma (40), Chief metropolitan magistrate Pankaj Sharma said in the Monday's order that some of the expensive jewellery in connection with the crime was yet to be recovered and pointed out the Delhi Police's stand in the matter.
