Dharmasthala case: SIT to produce complainant in Belthangady court today
Belthangady: While the probe by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) on the Dharmasthala mass burial case is still on, the investigation team is to produce complainant-witness Chinnaiah before the Belthangady court on Wednesday as the period of his retention in SIT custody ends on Wednesday.
Chinnaiah was arrested by SIT on August 23, charged with perjury, and produced in court, which sent him to SIT custody till September 3. The SIT has inspected the houses of activist Mahesh Shetty Timarodi and Jayant T and also the lodges where the witness had been staying during the period of the investigation, taking him along for the search.
The complainant will now be produced in court after end of SIT custody that he was sent to.
He is known to have provided information to the SIT on several matters related to the mass burial case and the inquest is expected to be held in several other sites.
The SIT, therefore, is expected to urge the court to extend the period of SIT custody of Chinnaiah.
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Man sets fire to gas cylinder on truck in Kerala's Kottayam, held
Kottayam(Kerala) (PTI): A 33-year-old man climbed onto a parked truck carrying cooking gas cylinders and set fire to one of them near Thalayolaparambu in the small hours of Saturday, police said.
The incident occurred around 12.30 am, they said.
The fire and rescue personnel soon arrived at the scene and extinguished the fire, averting a major disaster.
According to police, the man is suspected to be under mental distress as he claimed that he was walking from Ernakulam to his home in Marangattupilly here when he saw the truck on the roadside.
An FIR under sections 329(3)(criminal trespass),324(2)(mischief),326(f)(mischief by injury, inundation, fire or explosive substance) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita was lodged against him.
Police said that the man was formally arrested, but will be released on station bail as the offences he is accused of are bailable.
"His family is here at the station and he will be released to them," the officer said.
In the FIR, police have said that the man opened the seal of one of the gas cylinders and set fire to it with the knowledge that his act was dangerous to those living in the area.
According to the company transporting the cooking gas cylinders, it suffered a loss of Rs 2,300 in the incident.
