HASSAN: Shiradi Ghats in Sakleshpur taluk, 60 km from Hassan on National Highway 48, has of late become a dumping yard for dead bodies. The police have launched stringent action to prevent this trend and have opened a check-post near Marnahalli, 20 km from Sakleshpur, Additional Superintendent of Police K.S. Thammaiah said.

Speaking to The Hindu here on Tuesday, Mr. Thammaiah said Shiradi Ghats, owing to its thick forest cover, had become a dumping yard for bodies. The bodies of people murdered elsewhere were brought here and dumped, he added. It may be recalled that the body of Tania Bannerjee, a BPO employee from Bangalore, and three bodies of a family from a village Doddabemmathi of Arkalgud in Hassan district were found in this valley.

The police under the direction of Superintendent of Police Panduranga Rane have opened a check-post that is manned round the clock by an assistant sub inspector and two constables. Except buses, lorries and two-wheelers, cars and jeeps passing through Shiradi Ghats are checked. The check post has started functioning, Mr. Thammaiah said. He hoped that with this the crime rate would come down.

Special team

Mr. Thammaiah said a special investigation team had been formed to detect cases wherein money offered by devotees kept in the hundi in temples in Hassan district were stolen. "This is not the work of locals but by gangsters from outside who mastered in such crime. We have definite clues and will arrest the culprits soon," he added.

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