Who Is Dharmasthala's Mask Man CN Chinnayya? Who Is Funding Him? Annamalai Slams Cong Govt

Former Tamil Nadu BJP Chief K. Annamalai has accused the Karnataka government of giving legitimacy to baseless allegations in the Dharmasthala mass burial case.

Annamalai, who previously served as an IPS officer in Karnataka, including as the Superintendent of Police for the Udupi district, suspects a larger conspiracy behind the claims.

Annamalai Slams Congress Govt

In a post on X, he wrote, "It is extremely disturbing to note that one masked man took the entire government machinery of the Karnataka State for granted for over a month, with the sole aim of denigrating one of the Pillars of Sanatana Dharma, the Dharmasthala Temple. This is not just one man's doing but a larger conspiracy that is yet to be unmasked."

He questioned the Congress government's decision to form a Special Investigation Team (SIT) without sufficient evidence. Annamalai called the move "idiotic," and said the government was desperate to give credibility to Chinnayya's claims. It was idiotic on the part of the Congress Government in Karnataka to have given legitimacy to the masked man's baseless allegations without even a shred of prima facie evidence. In its desperation, it constituted an SIT, ordered random excavations at 13 sites, and shamelessly projected them as "burial grounds" linked to the Temple."

He highlighted that excavations at 13 sites failed to yield any significant discoveries, with skeletons found at two sites turning out to be male.

Who Is The Mask Man and Who Is Funding Him? Annamalai Asks

He also spoke about Sujatha Bhat's claims made against Dharmasthala before admitting that he was forced to make allegations against Dharmasthala. He continued, "To top it all, during the course of this random digging up, a woman named Sujatha Bhat was coerced into filing a false complaint that her daughter had gone missing in 2003, and later she admitted that the daughter's existence was fake and that certain individuals had forced her to file this complaint.

Annamalai also pointed to the case of Sujatha Bhat, who had initially filed a complaint about her missing daughter in 2003, only to later admit that the claim was false and that she had been coerced into making it.

Annamalai concluded, "The arrest of this masked man cannot be seen as the end of the matter. Who guided him? Who funded him? Who stood to gain from maligning Dharmasthala? These are questions the Karnataka Congress Government conveniently wants to bury. The real masterminds of this conspiracy must be exposed and held accountable."

C.N. Chinnayya, a former sanitation worker at the temple, was arrested after his claims proved inconsistent. He had alleged that he was forced to bury the bodies of hundreds of women who were raped and murdered. However, the SIT's extensive search at 17 locations has so far found no evidence to support his accusations.

He has been sent to judicial custody for 10 days for SIT custody by the Belthangady court on 10 days.

CN Chinnayya, also referred to as Chenna. He is a resident of Chikkabelli in Mandya district, Karnataka