: Karnataka Police begin probe into sexual assault charges against Lingayat seer #IndiaNEWS The Karnataka Police on Sunday began their probe into allegations of sexual abuse against Shivamurthy Murugha

Karnataka Police begin probe into sexual assault charges against Lingayat seer #IndiaNEWS
The Karnataka Police on Sunday began their probe into allegations of sexual abuse against Shivamurthy Murugha Sharanaru, the chief pontiff of the Jagadguru Murugarajendra Vidyapeetha Mutt in Chitradurga city, The Hindu reported.Sharanaru was booked under sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act on Saturday after two school girls alleged that the seer sexually abused them for years during their stay at the mutt’s hostel.In their complaints, the girls told the police that Sharanaru would allegedly call them to his chambers on some pretext and sexually assault them, according to The News Minute. They alleged the seer has been doing so to one of them for over the past three-and-a-half years and the other for the past one-and-a-half years.The incident came to light after the girls fled the hostel and approached a non-governmental organisation in Mysuru on Friday, which subsequently told the police and filed a complaint on their behalf on the next day, The Hindu reported.Besides the seer, the complainants have also named Rashmi, a warden of the mutt’s residential wing, Basavaditya, a junior priest at the mutt, lawyer Gangadharayya, and leader Paramashivayya in the first information report.Parashuram ML, who founded the NGO Odanadi Seva Samsthe, said that the girls preferred to lodge a complaint in Mysuru as they felt authorities in...Read more

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