“Karnataka: Seer of Chitradurga’s Murugharajendra Bruhanmutt, where Rahul Gandhi took ‘deeksha’, arrested in POCSO case”, Opindia, November 20, 2023:
“On 20th November (Monday), a Lingayat seer and the pontiff of the Chitradurga Murugharajendra Bruhan Mutt Shivamurthy Sharanaru was re-arrested from Davangere, Karnataka. The arrest took place hours after a Court had issued a non-bailable warrant in the second Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act case pending against him.
The development comes four days after he had secured conditional bail from the Karnataka High Court in one of the two POCSO cases.
Regarding his re-arrest, Chitradurga SP said, “On November 16, the High Court granted conditional bail to him in the first POCSO case. He was also released on this bail. But as he was released before getting bail in the second POCSO case, he was re-arrested today within 4 days of getting bail…..”
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