New Delhi: The medical examination report of the two minor girls who accused Karantaka’s Murugha Mutt seer Shivamurthy Sharanaru of rape in August 2022 has revealed that there was no case of penetrative sex, according to Deccan Herald.In the statements recorded by the girls before counsellors, they had, however, said that there were multiple instances of sexual penetration by the seer.The medical examination was carried out by the chief medical officer of Chitradurga district hospital after the girls recorded their statements before counsellors. The medical officer concluded that the girls’ hymen was intact and there was no case of sexual penetration. One of the two girls in question refused to get examined initially and only agreed to it after some time. One was examined on August 28, 2022, the other girl on September 29, 2022.According to the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, anyone convicted of “penetrative sexual assault” is liable to life-time imprisonment of 20 years in jail. On the other hand, non-penetrative physical contact having sexual intention under Section 7 of the law is punishable with a jail term of three to five years. Sharanaru is in judicial custody since September 1, 2022, after he was booked under POCSO.In the same matter, the bail plea of former Mutt administrator, S.K. Basavarajan, was rejected by Chitradurga principal district and sessions judge. The judge referred to an audio clip in which the expelled employee “is provoking a girl child to book a case”.Basavarajan, who was the MLA of Chitradurga, was arrested in the same matter based on a complaint lodged by Mutt’s Basavaprabhu Swami, who claimed to be the seer’s General Power of Attorney (GPA)’s holder, accusing the former of hatching a conspiracy against the seer and submitted audio clips of the telephonic conversations involving the former.Rejecting the bail plea of Basavarajan, the judge, however, said, “I have heard the audio clip that has been produced by the prosecution in another connected case in which it is found that a man is provoking a girl child to book a case and the girl is telling that she is staying in the mutt hostel and her mother is in the mutt.The informant has identified the said person to be accused Basavarajendra and the girl to be the daughter of one maid, working in Dasoha of mutt. The name of the accused/petitioner (Basavarajan) does not figure in the FIR, but there is reference to some other big guys behind the issue who are ready to assist financially for education, marriage, etc.”The order rejecting bail further said: “It is also material to note that, CD makes out that, Gayathri who is another accused (in the second case) cited, has taken police to the house of accused/petitioner and has shown the spot where she allegedly collected money from the wife of accused/petitioner. When the allegations are that, for sake of money, the allegations are being made against Shivamurthy Murugha Saharanaru, at this stage, I am of the opinion that the accused/petitioner is not entitled to an order of bail.”The girls in question testified before the police that they were taken to a nonprofit organisation in Mysuru on August 26, 2022, seeking help from Basavarajan’s wife Sowbhagya.The girls went to Mysuru 31 days after they left the mutt hostel and reached the Cottonpet Police Station in Bengaluru on July 25, 2022 night. Basavarajan picked them up from the station the next day. According to documents, Basavarajan claimed to have sent the girls to their parent’s house in Chitradurga. However, the girls said that they were in Basavarajan’s house until they were taken to Mysuru.