Overview

• Investigators brought complainant C. N. Chinnaiah to Bengaluru, searched activist T. Jayanth’s home with a mahazar, and later took him to the CID office.
• The SIT is scrutinising Chinnaiah’s Delhi trip and contacts with activists including Jayanth and Girish Mattannavar, with additional spot checks planned at other locations.
• An initial forensic assessment found the skull first presented by the complainant to be male, contradicting his claim that it belonged to a sexually assaulted woman.
• Samples from excavations that recovered skeletal remains at two Netravathi riverbank sites are with the Bengaluru FSL for DNA and soil testing, and the Home Minister said the SIT will set its own pace without political direction.
• JD(S) held a ‘Dharmasthala Sathya Yatre’ calling for an NIA takeover and the BJP plans a ‘Dharmasthala Chalo’ on September 1, as Chief Minister Siddaramaiah maintained there is no need for a central probe.