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Sowjanya Case: Supreme Court Orders Reinvestigation, Dharmasthala Welcomes Decision!
- •The Supreme Court has ordered a reinvestigation into the Sowjanya case, setting a 3-month deadline.
- •Sri Kshetra Dharmasthala has welcomed the Supreme Court's order, hoping for justice for Sowjanya.
- •Parshwanath Jain, Office Manager of Dharmasthala Temple, called for an impartial and transparent reinvestigation.
- •Dharmasthala stated that systematic defamation attempts are being made by vested interests to tarnish the Kshetra.
- •The case involves the mysterious death of 17-year-old Sowjanya, whose body was found in Dharmasthala in 2012.
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The Supreme Court ordered a reinvestigation into the 2012 death of student Sowjanya, setting a strict three-month deadline to complete the inquiry. The bench led by Justice Sanjay Kumar instructed that the final report must be submitted directly to the court and explicitly barred officers who previously handled the investigation from joining the new team.
Sri Kshetra Dharmasthala officially welcomed the Supreme Court's directive for a reinvestigation. Speaking through temple office manager Parshwanath Jain, the administration expressed hope that an impartial and transparent inquiry would bring a logical conclusion and help erase systematic defamation and blemishes targeting the temple.
Sowjanya was a 17-year-old second-year PU student at SDM College who went missing and was found dead on October 10, 2012, in a bush at Mannasanka, Dharmasthala. After initial local police actions, CID investigations, and a subsequent CBI probe that resulted in the sole accused Santosh Rao being acquitted in June 2023, the case has now taken a major turn with the Supreme Court-ordered reinvestigation.
