🛕Murder, Mayhem & Mantras: How a temple town’s holy chants may have muffled the cries of the dead for decades....
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By: N. Shovel Ready | Senior Exhumer, WTF Crime Beat
INTRO
If Agatha Christie had collaborated with Indian bureaucracy and caste apartheid, she’d probably invent a place like Dharmasthala. But unfortunately, this isn’t fiction — it’s an 800-year-old temple town with allegedly enough buried secrets to rival a Chinese real estate company’s accounting department.
For decades, thousands visited Dharmasthala for blessings, peace, and free mid-day meals. Unbeknownst to them, some visitors never made it back — especially if they were poor, female, Dalit, or simply inconvenient. Turns out the path to moksha was paved with the charred remains of schoolgirls and acid-burned women. Hallelujah.
And now, in 2025, while America is busy banning TikTok and re-banning it again under Trump 2.0, India is digging up literal mass graves — some allegedly next to petrol pumps. Because nothing says “holy heritage” like a possible child sex-murder cult operating under caste immunity and political protection.
Let’s exhume this one, shall we?
A SANITATION WORKER’S CONSCIENCE DIGS UP HELL
After 20 years of watching corpses disappear like temple prasad, a Dalit worker finally snapped. His conscience, unlike the Indian judicial system, had a pulse.
“I was made to bury girls in uniforms, women with acid on their faces, men who just… vanished,” he said in court. This wasn’t metaphorical. This was hands-in-the-dirt, diesel-soaked-bodies, boot-in-the-face literal.
He claims to have buried — and in some cases, burned — possibly hundreds. Girls with school bags. Women wrapped in newspaper. Acid-burnt faces. Strangulation marks. Rape injuries. All under the watchful eyes of “supervisors” who, in any horror movie, would be named things like “Pujari Shiv The Shoveler” and “Acharya Butcherananda.”
And just to be clear: he didn’t do this in ancient times. He did this until 2014.
In a shocking twist, it took the attempted molestation of his own family member for him to say: “Yeah, maybe it’s time to quit this temple gig.” Most people resign for a better salary. He resigned to escape a death cult.
HOLINESS, HUSH MONEY & HEREDITARY HEADACHES
The Dharmasthala Temple is no ordinary religious centre. It’s practically the Vatican of Dakshina Kannada — minus the Swiss Guards and plus a Padma Vibhushan-winning hereditary overlord named Veerendra Heggade.
A man so influential, even Modi nominated him to Parliament. Because when India hands out power, nothing screams modern democracy like 800-year-old feudal authority running spiritual-cum-educational empires while teenage girls disappear in the background.
The temple has, naturally, issued a vague statement hoping for a “transparent investigation.” That’s like Jeffrey Epstein hoping for a transparent rope.
THE ‘JUSTICE FOR SOWJANYA’ MOVEMENT & A 40-YEAR COVERUP
This isn’t new. In 1987, a 17-year-old named Padmalata was raped and killed. In 2012, Sowjanya — a schoolgirl — was found sexually assaulted and bludgeoned. Her body dumped. Her case stalled.
The link? All victims were women. All were from marginalized backgrounds. All near Dharmasthala. All brushed under a thick layer of caste privilege, political suppression, and spiritual gaslighting.
For decades, families of the missing were told to shut up, get darshan, and stop “hurting religious sentiments.” Meanwhile, it was their daughters’ bodies that were literally “hurt” — and then erased.
IF YOUR CASTE IS LOWER THAN YOUR DEVOTEE COUNT, GOOD LUCK
Let’s address the obvious elephant-in-the-burnt-flesh-scented room: caste.
The whistleblower was Dalit. The buried were often Dalits, women, or destitute. The accused overlords? Upper caste, wealthy, politically entrenched.
India’s spiritual economy has always needed sanitation workers, but it never liked acknowledging their humanity. God may be omnipresent — but Dalits were usually directed to the back gate. Unless, of course, someone needed to hide a corpse. Then they became “essential workers.”
SPECIAL INVESTIGATION TEAM: SIT TIGHT, OR SIT PRETEND?
Karnataka’s Congress government has now formed a Special Investigation Team — the Indian legal equivalent of saying, “We’ll think about thinking about it.”
And while SITs often accomplish less than a sleepy intern at CBI headquarters, this one has the unenviable task of digging into possibly hundreds of murders. No pressure, guys. You’re only excavating India’s moral basement. No biggie.
One can only hope they do better than the Justice for Sowjanya movement, which has been stuck in investigative purgatory for over a decade.
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FINAL THOUGHT:
In a country obsessed with rituals for the dead, it’s astonishing how many corpses are buried without a name, without last rites, and without justice.
The temple bells keep ringing, the politicians keep tweeting about “sabka saath,” and somewhere in Karnataka, an old Dalit man stands by an unmarked grave, still waiting to be believed.
Dharmasthala was supposed to mean the "place of righteousness." But if even half of this is true, then it might go down as India’s silent Bhopal — a slow, spiritual genocide hidden in saffron silks and diesel fumes.
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