TN govt asks SC to shift Kanchi seer to North India

TN govt asks SC to shift Kanchi seer to North India

Wednesday, January 12, 2005 (Chennai):

The Tamil Nadu government has moved a clarification petition asking the Supreme Court to shift Kanchi Shankarcharya Jayendra Saraswati to any state in North India where he will have no access to the Mutt or Mutt officials.

The government said the seer should be ordered not to be present anywhere in South India till the chargesheet is filed in the Shankaraman murder case and the trial is completed.

The apex court had granted bail to the Shankarachraya on Monday on the condition that he will not visit the Mutt till investigations are complete.

But a large number of Mutt officials met him at Kalavai, prompting the state government to move this petition.

Hearing adjourned

Meanwhile, the hearing on the anticipatory bail application filed by the seer in a third case again him has been adjourned till January 20 by the Principal Sessions Court.

The counsel for the seer, K S Dinakaran, agreed to the adjournment after Tamil Nadu public prosecutor Doraisamy gave an undertaking that the seer would not be arrested till then.

The Shankaracharya moved the sessions court for anticipatory bail, apprehending arrest in the assault case on a temple priest Tirukoshtiyur Madhavan in August last year. (With PTI inputs)