SIT issues notice to Kerala YouTuber Manaf

MANGALURU: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) has issued a notice to Kerala YouTuber Manaf in connection with the human skull presented by the masked complainant Chinnaiah.

Manaf, who had allegedly been fabricating stories related to Dharmasthala from the beginning, has been accused of spreading false information about Dharmasthala, claiming that hundreds of women were raped and murdered there.

The conspiracies hatched against Dharmasthala are slowly unraveling. The mystery surrounding the origin of the human skull brought by the accused Chinniah has been revealed. The original video of the human skull being brought from the forest is available. This video was uploaded on Manaf’s YouTube channel on July 11.

Another complainant, Jayanth T, a close associate of Mahesh Thimarodi, had claimed that the skull was brought from Banglegudda. The video was shot in the forest and uploaded online. It was found near a tree where a saree was tied and it was dug up using a sickle. Manaf had uploaded the video on his channel, and later the human skull was brought to Dharmasthala.

In July 2024, heavy rainfall caused a landslide in Shirur of Ankola taluk in Uttara Kannada district, resulting in the death of 11 people, including lorry driver Arjun, who hailed from Kerala. Interestingly, Manaf is the owner of the same lorry and also a YouTuber from Kerala.

A case has been registered at Dharmasthala police station against Sameer Md on charges of spreading false information and defamation, and the police are conducting an investigation. As part of the investigation, SIT officials conducted an inspection at Sameer’s house at Bannerghatta in Bengaluru for six hours on Thursday.

The Dharmasthala police, along with the SIT team, conducted the inspection based on information that Sameer had made videos using a computer and camera at his residence. During the six-hour search, the police seized the computer, camera and a mobile phone used by Sameer to make the videos.

Interestingly, Girish Mattannanavar was already present at Sameer’s house before the police arrived.