Chamarajanagar: Ambika, accused No.2 in the Kichguth Maramma  Temple tragedy at Sulwadi in Hanur taluk of Chamarajanagar, in which 16 people have so far died after eating prasadam laced with poison, enacted a high drama on Friday, accusing Police officers of planting evidence in her house to implicate her in the case.

Police brought Ambika, wife of Sulwadi Temple Manager Madesh, who is also an accused in the case, to her house in Sulwadi yesterday for mahazar. While alighting from the stairs of her leased first-floor house, she told the media that the Police had planted a bottle of insecticide at her house in her absence.

A screaming Ambika also demanded a CBI probe into the incident. Even as she continued to scream, the women Police accompanying her, asked Ambika to stop her drama and dragged her to the waiting Police van.

Meanwhile, Immadi Mahadevaswamy, the main accused in the case, too enacted a drama at Ramapura Police Station, complaining that he suffered from chest pain. The Police summoned a doctor attached to an ambulance which was stationed nearby. The doctor, who examined Mahadevaswamy, declared that he was very much healthy, following which the Police continued to interrogate him.

Police brought all four accused in the case to Yalachikatte Mutt, where the plot is said to have been hatched, to conduct mahazar.  All the four accused — Immadi Mahadevaswamy, Ambika, her husband Madesh and Doddaiah — were produced before Kollegal Magistrate late night on Friday. Judge T. Srikanth remanded all the four to Judicial custody, following which they were brought to Mysuru Central Jail in the wee hours of this morning.

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