Bengaluru police registered a First Information Report (FIR) on May 22, 2025, against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Munirathna following allegations by a 40-year-old woman that he and his associates gang-raped her, urinated on her face, and injected her with an unknown substance suspected to be a deadly virus.
The Madras High Court on Friday dismissed all appeals filed by 215 convicts, including several officals of the police and forest departments, in cases related to mass crimes against tribals of the Vachathi village of Dharmapuri district of Tamil Nadu in 1992.