Minor Girls Were Drugged And Abused By Jailed Top Karnataka Seer: Cops

Shivamurthy Sharanaru has been accused of sexually assaulting and abusing two minor girls who were students living in the girls' hostel in the premises of the Murugha Mutt for over three years.

Shocking details have emerged from the Chitradurga district of Karnataka, where the police have filed a chargesheet against the most powerful Lingayat seer, Shivamurthy Murugha Sharanaru of Murugha Mutt, who is alleged to have sexually abused more than 15 girls.

Senior police officers confirmed to NDTV that the chargesheet, based on the statements of the victims, mentions how the minor girls living in the hostel of Murugha mutt were drugged, and abused by the Lingayat seer. As the case gets murkier, the investigating officers have requested through media that the victims could come forward and lodge a complaint against the seer.

A prominent face of the Lingayat community, Shivamurthy Sharanaru is the same seer who had initiated Rahul Gandhi into the Lingayat Sect in August.

Shivamurthy Sharanaru has been accused of sexually assaulting and abusing two minor girls who were students living in the girls' hostel in the premises of the Murugha Mutt for over three years.