Crime

Karnataka seer arrested for raping students

Murugha Math chief Shivamurthy Murugha Sharanaru, who is one of the key Lingayat seminaries of Karnataka

Karnataka: Murugha Math chief Shivamurthy Murugha Sharanaru, who is one of the key Lingayat seminaries of Karnataka, has been arrested for raping school girls for years.

Sharanaru will be produced before judge. Medical test and investigation will be done as per the procedure, Free Press Journal quoted Alok Kumar, ADGP Law and Order, Karnataka, as having said.

Lingayat seer is the primary accused in the FIR registered last week, the chief warden of mutt’s hostel was earlier detained by the police as criticism against the police and government inaction mounted.

The arrest took place after daylong protests by the civil society and various organisations across Karnataka’s Chitradurga and Mysuru districts. He was then presented before the magistrate court which sent him to 14-day judicial custody, NDTV reported.

The case was filed on August 26 after the girls- both students of Murugha Math- approached a non-governmental organisation in Mysuru. The two teens alleged that they were abused for years.

In another move, the mutt has reportedly put the blame for the conspiracy on the seer’s childhood friend and former administrator of the Murugha mutt, SK Basavarajan, and his wife. A counter complaint of rape and kidnap case has been registered against Basavarajan by the warden of Muruga mutt, Rashmi.

Meanwhile, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai’s predecessor, former Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa had publicly backed him, saying the seer has been “falsely implicated”.

 

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