{"id":12226,"date":"2025-07-25T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T12:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=12226"},"modified":"2025-07-25T12:14:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T12:14:00","slug":"why-is-indias-dharmasthala-temple-at-the-centre-of-a-mass-murder-case-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=12226","title":{"rendered":"Why is India\u2019s Dharmasthala temple at the centre of a mass murder case? | Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<br \/><span class=\"program__page__source\"><span class=\"video-program-source__program-name\">NewsFeed<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__subhead u-inline \">A former cleaner claims he was forced to bury the bodies of hundreds of women and girls, on the orders of supervisors at one of southern India\u2019s most revered temples. As Soraya Lennie explains, the case has shocked the country and sparked accusations of a three-decade old cover up.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Published On 25 Jul 2025<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">25 Jul 2025<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NewsFeed A former cleaner claims he was forced to bury the bodies of hundreds of women and girls, on the orders of supervisors at one of southern India\u2019s most revered temples. As Soraya Lennie explains, the case has shocked the country and sparked accusations of a three-decade old cover up. Published On 25 Jul 202525<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[1844,3696,2173,5790,3624,1472,4646,3306],"class_list":{"0":"post-12226","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-case","9":"tag-centre","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-dharmasthala","12":"tag-indias","13":"tag-mass","14":"tag-murder","15":"tag-temple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}