
Santosh Kumar Podiyami
Santosh Kumar Podiyami is the brother-in-law of Joga Madkami, a convict in the Jhiram Ghati attack case, who has stood by his family's assertion that Joga was not involved in the attack and was attending a wedding at the time.
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Santosh Kumar Podiyami, Joga's brother-in-law, disputed the prosecution case against him, claiming he was attending a wedding during the attack.
He studied engineering, clashed with RSS on campus, then vanished in 1980 — how Basavaraju went from a middle-class Andhra family to becoming mastermind of the Jhiram Ghati massacre | Delhi NewsThe Times of India·
India· 2026-09-17






