Published - January 13, 2026 08:13 pm IST - Bengaluru The High Court of Karnataka on Wednesday sought the State government’s response on a PIL petition, which has sought a direction to the Special Investigation Team (SIT) for registering separate First Information Reports (FIRs) based on claims by the petitioner on the unnatural death of 74 unknown persons in Dharmasthala village between 1990 and 2021. A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Vibhu Bakhru and Justice C. M. Poonacha passed the order on the petition by 48-year-old Kusumavathi, mother of Soujanya, who was raped and murdered near Dharmasthala in 2012 when she was 17.
