A person who claimed to rape and secret burials in the city of Dharmosthal, arrested

Police in India arrested a man who recently claimed he was forced to bury hundreds of women who were raped before the murder.

His strange claims threw a tiny religious city of Dharmosthala in the southern state of Karnatak in a clutter.

The house to the centuries -old temple to Manjunat Swami – the embodiment of Shiva from the Hindu Holy Trinity – the city attracts thousands of pilgrims daily and takes the main place in the fabric of the life of local people.

The political line in the state has led to the government created a special investigative group (sit) to check the human allegations.

An official official who did not want him to be called the BBC on Saturday morning that the man was “arrested for perjury.”

In early July, a middle -aged man filed a complaint to the police and appeared before the magistrate to record his application. His personality was retained, and he still appeared publicly dressed in black, including a hood and a face mask.

In a police complaint, a man said that he worked as a cleaner in the temple from 1995 to 2014 – and claimed that he had to bury the bodies of hundreds of girls and young women who were severely raped and killed.

He told five alleged incidents when he gave specific and said there were many others. Some victims, according to the man, were minors.

He said he had been hiding since 2014 and returned and talked to silence his dense conscience.

The purifier did not call anyone but the charge of the “administration of the temple and its staff” – the charges The head of the temple rejected as “false and unreasonable”.

When he was taken to the magistrate, the man continued to produce a human skull from his bag as evidence. He said he belonged to the body he buried and that he had recently retrieved him.

“The skull and the skeletal remains he created do not bring a single place in which he claimed that he buried his bodies,” said the official Seta.

The Saturday’s arrest comes as the main turn in the saga that went to the fiery storm in the state and outside.

The allegations received intensive media lighting. After the Women’s Commission of the State arose, the government launched a major criminal investigation and created a sit.

Over the last few weeks, the team has carried out excavations in and around Dharmosthal to make sure the person’s claims. Initially, he identified 13 spots of one of them in inaccessible areas covered with dense foliage, and reportedly infected with poisonous snakes.

The sources in the seat, confirmed by the BBC that human remains, including skulls and nearly 100 bone fragments, were found on two spots and were sent to forensics. It is unclear to whom they belong.

The allegations also made attention to the influential Heggade family – the hereditary administrators of the temple.

In a statement to the BBC, Chief Administrator Verendra Hegade, a deputy in the upper house of the Indian Parliament, who received the second largest Civic Prize of Vibhushan in 2015, welcomed the Sit investigation.

The temple “is greatly appreciated by the government for the appointment of Sit for the investigation of allegedly unnatural deaths, which were claimed in the Dharmostal and around it,” he wrote.

“We are already providing full support for the investigation. We are full of faith in our judicial system and investigation and the India Constitution,” he added.

Y en interview Later, with the Indian news agency, PTI he called the statements of the former cleaner “impossible” and said that “once and that is true.”

The allegations also led to a huge political line – the issue was discussed at the newly stopped session of the State Assembly, and members of the BJP opposition call it a “brain” against the Hindu religious site, which has millions of devoted.

The Interior Minister G Paramesvar from the Congress State Party said the government did not intend to protect anyone or break anyone.

“Isn’t the truth come out?” he asked. “If nothing is found, Dharmosthala’s growth will only be stronger. If something appears, justice will be delivered, ”he added.