Overview

• Progressive organisations in Mysuru urged the SIT to run a fair, transparent, comprehensive, time-bound inquiry with strong witness protection and insulation from outside pressure.
• Speakers said new witnesses have come forward in recent years, stressing that their safety must be guaranteed.
• Kamal Gopinath of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties asked the Home Minister to issue an interim report to bolster public confidence.
• A forum of writers, lawyers and activists alleged attempts by vested political interests, including BJP leaders and feudal powers, to disrupt the probe and to intimidate complainants and witnesses.
• The forum sought reinvestigation of unsolved cases from 1979, 1986 and 2012 and called for an inquiry into alleged land grabbing in Dharmasthala and surrounding villages.