Mangaluru: No human remains were found as the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the alleged mass burial case near Dharmasthala continued with its search at site No. 13 for the second consecutive day on Wednesday.The search that went on till late evening on Tuesday, with the help of two earth movers, resumed on Wednesday. The investigating team, in the presence of SP Jitendra Kumar Dayama, Puttur assistant commissioner Stella Varghese, crime scene officers and other experts, continued with their search, with a ground penetrating radar yet again deployed for the investigation. According to sources, an area measuring about 32 feet in length and 28 feet in width was excavated up to a depth of about 16 feet. 2 more ‘eyewitness’ claims Meanwhile, two individuals, one of them the uncle of Sowjanya, who was allegedly raped and murdered in 2012, approached the SIT to get their statements recorded. Speaking to reporters outside the SIT office, one of them, Purandara Gowda, said he had seen bodies being buried near site Nos. 1 and 13 between 2003 and 2017. “I saw bodies being taken out from the boot of an Ambassador car and buried near the Nethravati bathing ghat. I also saw bodies being buried behind my shop, where there was a toilet,” he alleged, adding that one of the men burying the bodies resembled the complainant-witness, who claimed to have worked there since 1998. Another witness, Tukram Gowda, also claimed to have seen a body being buried and said he would reveal complete details before the SIT.
