Dharmasthala case: Legal counsel urges SIT to conduct GPR scan of burial sites

THE legal counsel representing Sujatha Bhat, mother of Ananya Bhat, an MBBS student, who went missing under mysterious circumstances in Dharmasthala town a decade ago, has urged the Special Investigation Team (SIT) to use Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) at locations already identified and excavated by the witness-complainant in the Dharmasthala mass burial case.

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Advocate N Manjunath in a press communique said, "As the witness himself has stated, he left Dharmasthala in 2014. The Dharmasthala region experiences heavy rainfall and there is a high possibility of soil shifting and accumulation from one place to another." He further said, "Since considerable changes have occurred in the forest area over approximately 11 years, there is a high probabil