Friday, November 19, 2004
What Led to the Seer's Arrest
The Times of India, November 20, 2004
The Plot
The Kanchi Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswathi has been accused of plotting and being an accomplice in the murder of Sankara Raman, a manager of the Vardharaja Perumal temple near Kancheepuram.
Raman was murdered at September 3, 2004 at about 5.30 a.m., allegedly by five criminals from Chennai. The Tamil Nadu Police had arrested 14 others in the same case earlier. They arrested Shankaracharya under IPC Section 120-B (conspiracy), 302 (murder) and 109 (abetment) on Friday morning.
The police has been making inquiries at the mutt in connection with murder. Earlier, a police constable attached to the mutt was suspended, though the police had stated that the suspension had nothing to do with the murder case.
Raman, once a devotee of the pontif, reportedly turned critical of the Sankaracharya and made several accusations about him, including those of financial irregularities.
Read the full story here:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/921255.cms
