An investigation has been ordered into the alleged misuse of funds amounting to ₹35 crore allocated by the state government for the construction of 375-feet Basaveshwara statue in Chitradurga, an official familiar with the matter said. The official said that deputy commissioner T Venskatesh has ordered details on the matter from technical experts, urging for accurate assessments to ascertain the …
The Karnataka high court on Wednesday granted conditional bail to the former chief pontiff of Chitradurga Muruga Mutt, Shivamurthy Murugha Sharanaru, in connection with the alleged sexual harassment of a minor girl. Muruga mutt’s chief pontiff Shivamurthy Murugha Sharanaru gets conditional bail in Pocso case. As per the order, the chief pontiff cannot be released from jail, though he was …
Bengaluru Political leaders started to visit mutts to seek blessings ahead of Karnataka elections. In Chitradurga in central Karnataka, the sexual assault allegations against prominent Lingayat seer Shivamurthy Murugha Sharanaru have, however, cast a looming shadow over the political influence of the Murugha mutt. After the arrest of Shivamurthy Sharanaru, Davangere-based Virakta Mutt seer Basavaprabhu was appointed the in-charge pontiff …
The Chitradurga rural police in Karnataka have registered a first information report against Jagadguru Murugarajendra Vidyapeetha Mutt’s former pontiff Shivamurthy Muruga Sharanaru and four others for allegedly keeping abandoned children in an orphanage run by the mutt without following due procedures, officials said. The latest case against the seer, under section 33 and 34 of Juvenile Justice Act, was registered …
Sri Murugha Mutt's Shivamurthy Murugha Sharanaru, a top religious leader of Karnataka's influential Lingayat community and now an accused in a child sexual abuse case, was on Friday taken to the deputy superintendent of police office in Challakere in a wheelchair after his medical examination was conducted at a district hospital in the southern state. In a video shared by …
