Hearing in Sankararaman murder case adjourned to October 3

Follow us:WhatsappFacebookTwitterTelegram.cls-1{fill:#4d4d4d;}.cls-2{fill:#fff;}Google NewsA local court today adjourned to October 3 thehearing in the Sankararaman murder case in which Kanchi Sankaracharya JayendraSaraswathi and his junior Vijayendra are the prime accused.Special Public Prosecutor N Devadoss told reporters outsidethe court that the petition filed by Padma, widow of Sankararaman, in theMadras High court seeking transfer of the trial from here to the High Court waspending disposal.All other petitions she had filed in the High Court werealso required to be disposed and hence the hearing was adjourned till October3.Principal District and Sessions Judge C S Murugan directedthat all the 24 accused including the two seers should be compulsorily presentat the next hearing.Only 13 accused were present in the court today and theabsentees included the two seers.Defence counsel who presented petitions assigning reason forthe absence of the two seers informed the court that as the two pontiffs werecurrently observing "Chaturmasya Vrida" (performing poojas and otherrituals between July 3 and September 30) they could not be present at thehearing when it was resumed today.Sankararaman, Manager of Varadarajaperumal temple inKancheepuram in Tamil Nadu, was murdered in the temple premises on September 3,2004.A total of 189 witnesses including Padma, her son anddaughter were examined during the trial between 2010 and 2011.Eighty-three of the witnesses turned hostile during thetrial, shifted here by the Supreme Court on a petition by Jayendra Saraswathi.The trial was shifted from Chengalpet court (Tamil Nadu) toPuducherry following an order by Supreme Court on a writ petition the Kanchiseer in October 2005.first published:January 01, 1970, 05:30 ISTlast updated:January 01, 1970, 05:30 IST
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