Dharmasthala: The whistleblower in the Dharmasthala mass burial case has revealed that he had buried the body of a Malayali woman in the location.

In an interview given to a news channel, the sanitation worker said the body was buried at Bahubali Hills. The revelation came while a special investigation team was excavating soil in search of human remains.

At the same time, two brothers lodged a complaint with the SIT stating that their sister, who had gone to Dharmasthala with a neighbour, had gone missing, reported PTI.

Brothers, Nitin and Nitesh, filed a complaint with the SIT probing charges of murders and burials in Dharmasthala, regarding their younger sister, Hemalatha, who went missing in 2012 after visiting the town and never returned.

The Special Investigation Team, formed by the state government, is probing allegations of multiple murders, rapes, and burials across different places in Dharmasthala over the past two decades. The investigation first began based on the complaint filed by a former sanitation worker, whose identity has not been revealed.

Speaking to reporters after lodging their complaint, Nitin said it has been 13 years with no information about his sister.

When they came to know that SIT is collecting information on missing persons, they decided to make a complaint, he said.

Hemalatha, then 17 and a resident of Kavala Muduru village in Bantwal taluk, had gone to Dharmasthala accompanied by a woman neighbour but never returned. When questioned, the woman accompanying her denied having gone with her, Nitin said.

Though the brothers had previously filed a complaint at the Poonjalakatte police station and visited multiple stations over the years, the case remained unresolved.