'Burial without legal procedures': Shocking twist in Pithoragarh case
A new twist in Karnataka's Belthangady district—RTI activist Jayanth has reported seeing a young girl buried without legal procedures, allegedly while officials looked on.
He's taken his concerns to the Special Investigation Team (SIT), which now plans to register an FIR and possibly start exhuming graves.
Police records from 2000-2015 deleted
The story got attention after an India Today report found that police records from 2000-2015—years linked to suspicious, unreported deaths—were deleted.
When Jayanth asked for missing persons data, police said key documents like postmortem reports were destroyed as part of "routine orders."
Jayanth worries this lack of records could make it nearly impossible to identify any remains, and the missing digital files have people calling for a deeper investigation.