Overview
- A District and Sessions Court in Chitradurga delivered the not guilty verdict on November 26.
- Co-accused including hostel warden Rashmi and secretary Paramashivaiah were also acquitted in the same case.
- The case arose from an August 2022 complaint by two hostel students alleging assaults between 2019 and 2022.
- Investigators submitted two 347-page chargesheets citing POCSO, IPC Section 376, the Atrocities Act, and the Religious Institution Misuse law, detailing allegations of repeated assaults, threats, and facilitation by staff.
- The seer appeared in court, declined to comment, and traveled from Davangere due to an earlier court bar on entering Chitradurga.