Why shankaracharya arrested

In the video clipping released by The Republic, Shankaracharya is shown flaunting his political network when he was given the letter written by Sankararaman. He is seen saying how the police officials came to him to seek his blessings and how CM Jayalalithaa and Sasikala had visited him. In fact, it was also said that Jayalalithaa was accused of taking his advice in running the government. It is not unknown, that Shankaracharya is also known to have a national political presence when the then PM Atal Behari Vajpayee sought his help in resolving the Ayodhya issue.

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Till then, being a Dravidian party leader of Brahmin lineage, she was usually seen as someone soft on saffron politics, while the opposition DMK took pride in being secular. It is another matter that most victims who met a watery grave were poor fisherfolk living along the coastline in thatched huts.

The arrest reverberated in Delhi too. Former President R Venkataraman and former Prime Minister AB Vajpayee, religious heads, rightwing political parties and their saffron affiliates held rallies denouncing the arrest. The case against Saraswathi turned creaky within a fortnight of the arrest, with a series of flip-flops in testimony.

Kathiravan, one of the accused, turned hostile and retracted his confession, saying he had made it under duress. This man, who was killed in a gang war, has been acquitted too. The case has not just attracted media commentary, it has been followed closely by many. The judicial verdict exonerating the Acharyas and the others charged with the crime implies that the entire case was misdirected.

According to him, the so-called secular media had also launched a campaign against Saraswathi to tarnish his image. He himself had an arrest warrant issued against him, he says, and had to appeal to the Judiciary, which passed orders restraining the state. In response, the apex court transferred the trial to a Puducherry court and also granted the petitioners their prayer that no Tamil Nadu prosecutor represent the State against the accused.

The trial itself was not without its share of drama. I hope the courts sort out the mess as quickly as possible, not just the murder of Sankararaman but also the original charges raised by the victim about criminal misuse of the Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham's funds. But given the way in which the prime minister, the Union home minister, and the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh rushed to excuse themselves, it seems those three worthies at least have no great confidence in the case against Jayendra Saraswati!

The Web. Kanchi seer: Complete Coverage That said, I have to say that the manner of his arrest and his treatment thereafter was in rank bad taste. T V R Shenoy. Email this article. Top emailed links. Print this article. Write us a letter. Discuss this article. All Rights Reserved. Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswathi overcame ordeal of murder charge in Rate Story. Font Size Abc Small. Abc Medium. Abc Large. Agencies Jayendra Saraswathi was arrested on November 11, , on Diwali eve on charges of conspiring to murder Sankararaman.

Sankararaman, manager of the Sri Varadarajaperumal temple here, was brutally murdered in his office room in the temple on September 3, , by a sharp-edged weapons. He had levelled charges of financial misappropriation in the mutt administration against Jayendra Saraswathi and his junior Vijayendra Saraswathi , who will now succeed the late seer.

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