Police in India have arrested a man who recently alleged that he had been coerced into burying hundred of bodies of women who were raped before being murdered.
His startling claims had thrown the tiny religious town of Dharmasthala in the southern state of Karnataka into turmoil.
Home to the centuries-old temple to Manjunatha Swamy - an incarnation of Shiva from the Hindu holy trinity - the town attracts thousands of pilgrims daily and is central to the fabric of local people's lives.
A political row in the state resulted in the government setting up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to verify the man's allegations.
A SIT official who did not want to be named told the BBC on Saturday morning that the man "has been arrested for perjury".
