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Sexual assault on minors: Karnataka seer ends life after his name comes up in audio clip

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Basava Siddalinga. [Photo: Twitter]

Karnataka: After being named in a sexual assault case involving minor students, a 28-year-old Lingayat seer allegedly committed suicide as his body was found at his mutt in Belagavi district in Karnataka.

The seer Basava Siddalinga ended his life by hanging himself after an audio clip containing a conversation between two women discussing how women and girls were exploited at Chitradurga mutt went viral on social media, news agency IANS reported.

The report quoting police said that Siddalinga was talking to devotees till late night Sunday. He told his devotees that he had been pained that his reference was made in a demeaning way in the purported audio and he is not feeling like living anymore.

According to a report by Free Press Journal, police have recovered the seer’s purported suicide note and an investigation is on to ascertain the cause of his death. The content of the note is not known yet.

Basava Siddalinga Swami’s alleged suicide comes days after Shivamurthy Murugha Sharanaru, the head seer of an influential Lingayat mutt in Karnataka’s Chitradurga district, was arrested for sexually abusing two minor students.

 

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