{"id":42765,"date":"2016-04-29T09:57:03","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T04:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=42765"},"modified":"2016-04-29T09:59:14","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T04:29:14","slug":"kanchi-seer-acquitted-auditor-assault-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/kanchi-seer-acquitted-auditor-assault-case","title":{"rendered":"Kanchi seer acquitted in auditor assault case"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_42766\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42766\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/Sankarachary1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"42766\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/kanchi-seer-acquitted-auditor-assault-case\/sankarachary1\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/Sankarachary1.jpg?fit=940%2C580&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"940,580\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Sankarachary1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/Sankarachary1.jpg?fit=300%2C185&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/Sankarachary1.jpg?fit=640%2C395&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-42766 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/Sankarachary1.jpg?resize=300%2C185&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Kanchi seer acquitted in auditor assault case\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/Sankarachary1.jpg?resize=300%2C185&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/Sankarachary1.jpg?resize=768%2C474&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/Sankarachary1.jpg?w=940&amp;ssl=1 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42766\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kanchi seer acquitted in auditor assault case<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>First Additional Sessions Judge P Rajamanickam in his brief judgement acquitted all the accused.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I acquit you all. You may go,&#8221; the judge said in the packed open court where the accused had appeared before him.<\/p>\n<p>The Judge said approver-turned hostile witness Ravi Subramanian will be tried separately.<\/p>\n<p>Jayendra Saraswathi, 80, who was the prime accused, Kanchi Mutt Manager Sundaresa Iyer and junior pontiff Vijayendra Saraswati&#8217;s brother Raghu faced the main charge of criminal conspiracy and read with it, the charges of attempt to murder and abetment.<\/p>\n<p>According to the prosecution case, former auditor of the mutt S Radhakrishnan was assaulted by a gang in his home here on September 20, 2002 following a conspiracy hatched by the accused assuming that he was writing letters in the pseudo name of Somasekhara Ganapadigal highlighting alleged &#8216;irregularities&#8217; in the Sankara Mutt.<\/p>\n<p>The attack was a consequence of Jayendra Saraswathi allegedly expressing frustration over such letters and asking Sundaresa Iyer and Raghu to do something about it.<\/p>\n<p>Police had registered a case against 12 persons, including Jayendra Saraswati, and the chargesheet was filed in 2006 for offences including attempt to murder and criminal conspiracy.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the accused died during the pendency of the case.<br \/>\nDeposing before the judge on March 28 to answer questions under CrPC section 313, the Sankaracharya had said the charges made out by the prosecution against him were lies.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, the Sankaracharya and his junior were acquitted by a Puducherry court in the case related to the September, 2004 murder of Kancheepuram Varadaraja temple manager Sankararaman.<\/p>\n<p>The seer was charged with hatching criminal conspiracy to do away with Sankararaman as he had &#8216;exposed&#8217; alleged irregularities in the mutt, but the court acquitted him and others.<\/p>\n<p>( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Additional Sessions Judge P Rajamanickam in his brief judgement acquitted all the accused. &#8220;I acquit you all. 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