Rape Of Minors: Murugha Mutt Seer Sent To 3-Day Police Custody; Hostel Warden Also Held

The seer changed into arrested on Thursday night time, every week after an FIR changed into registered in opposition to him for alleged sexual attack of  minor college students.

Shivamurthy Sharanaru ,the head of the mutt

A court in Karnataka’s Chitradurga district on Friday despatched the head seer of Karnataka’s influential Murugha mutt, Shivamurthy Sharanaru, to 3-day police custody in a rape case concerning two minors.

Shivamurthy, who heads the Jagadguru Murugharajendra Vidyapeetha, changed into arrested on Thursday night, a week after being booked for rape and underneath the POCSO Act on the complaint of  minors who stayed at a college hostel that the mutt runs. The hostel warden was additionally arrested on Friday and a court docket sent her to judicial custody

Police approached additional district and sessions court docket in search of custody of the seer who was sent to prison after his arrest on Thursday night time. When judge BK Komala checked with prison officials, she became advised that the pontiff turned into hospitalised as he complained of chest ache.

Taking observe that she changed into now not informed of seer’s transferring from prison to hospital, the decide asked the jail superintendent to appear earlier than the courtroom. In the afternoon, the jail superintendent appeared and said that the pontiff had to be shifted to a hospital in Bengaluru. Since the prison superintendent didn’t supply any files regarding the seer’s health circumstance, the decide requested the prison authorities to supply him.

Around 4.05 pm, Shivamurthy become brought to the court docket wherein he broke down. The decide surpassed him over to police for three days with directions to reveal his fitness situation.

Shivamurthy will be produced earlier than the courtroom at 11am on September five.

The pontiff became again taken to the district authorities sanatorium. Sources inside the police said he may be questioned after you have a pass ahead from the medical doctors.

The warden is accused wide variety 2 inside the case. A police officer stated the two girls had complained approximately the warden beating them up each time they raised the difficulty in their sexual attack.

Chitradurga district police had wondered the warden on Thursday, and formally arrested her on Friday.

The Mysuru police had filed a case after the minors told individuals of the nation Child Welfare Committee that they had been sexually assaulted between January 1, 2019 and June 6, 2022. The case turned into later transferred to Chitradurga district police.