The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing into the alleged burial of bodies in Dharmasthala village more than a decade ago, will not submit any interim report on the probe to the government, according to sources in the SIT.

Sources told The Hindu that SIT has been regularly updating the Director General and Inspector General of Police (DG-IGP), M. A. Saleem, on the progress of the investigation as mentioned in the government order of constituting the SIT on July 19.

The Home Minister G. Parameshewara is scheduled to make a statement on the ongoing probe on the floor of the legislature on Monday (August 18, 2025).

The government has formed the SIT headed by Director General of Police Pronab Mohanty to probe the complaint filed by a 50-year-old person who has claimed that he worked as a sanitation worker in Dharmasthala between 1995 and 2014. He has alleged that he was forced to bury many bodies then. The SIT has been asked to submit the final report of the probe to the Government through the DG-IGP.

The SIT took over the probe following the initial probe by the Dharmasthala police and the recording of a voluntary statement by the complainant before the magistrate in Belthangady under section 183 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Surakasha Sanhita. The SIT has so far dug up 17 sites shown by the complainant.

The SIT has recovered partial skeletal remains suspected to be of a male at site number 6. Skeletal remains also suspected to be of a male was found on the surface of a ground at site number 14.

Meanwhile, the SIT has identified the site in which activist T. Jayant alleged that the local police had buried a 15-year-old girl without registering a case in 2002-2003. Witnesses to the alleged burial of the 15-year-old girl in Kalleri near Dharmasthala and witnesses to other alleged burials which were reportedly done between 1995 and 2014 have also been examined. Records related to the burial of bodies in Dharmasthala village during that period have been collected from the Dharmasthala gram panchayat.

The complaint by one Nitish Devadiga about his 17-year-old sister Hemavati going missing from Dharmasthala in 2012 is being investigated by the Punjalkatte police. Another complaint by Sujatha Bhat about her daughter Ananya Bhat, said to be a medical student, going missing in Dharmasthala in 2003, is being investigated by the Dharmasthala police.