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TN plans review petition in SC against Kanchi seer's bail

     Chennai: The Tamil Nadu government is filing a review petition in the Supreme Court with a plea to make the provision of Kanchi Seer's conditional bail more stringent. It would be seeking a ban on mutt persons meeting the Seer. Besides, the state government would be asking the SC for shifting the Kanchi Seer to some place in north India. The Tamil Nadu Police had arrested Junior Seer Vijyendra Saraswati on January 10, just minutes after SC granted bail to the Kanchi Seer. In another development, the Special Investigation Team of police called VHP leader Vedantam for questioning in the Sankararaman murder case. Earlier, the SIT had also question Swadeshi Jagran Manch leader Gurumurthy in this connection.

Seer's anticipatory bail plea in Chennai court (Go To Top)

     Chennai: A Chennai Principal Sessions Court will today hear the anticipatory bail petition filed by Kanchi Sankaracharya Jayendra Saraswati in an assault case. The seer moved the anticipatory bail apprehending arrest in a case related to the assault of a temple priest Tirukoshtiyur Madhavan in August last year. In the meantime, the Sankaracharya came out of jail on Tuesday after spending two months behind the bars in connection with the Sankararaman murder case. Although the seer has been released, he cannot visit the mutt in Kanchipuram under the Supreme Court's bail orders.

VHP starts nationwide protest against Vijayendra's arrest (Go To Top)

VHP and Bajrang Dal volunteers protesting against the arrest of junior Kanchi Sankaracharya Swami Vijayendra Saraswati in New Delhi on Wednesday

     New Delhi: Agitated over the arrest of junior Sankaracharya of Kanchi mutt Vijendra Saraswati, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad launched its nationwide protest, besides demanding dismissal of the Jayalalitha government in Tamil Nadu. According to the VHP general secretary Praveen Togadia, VHP has also chalked out a strategy to launch a week-long programme of "Hanuman Chalisa" recital up to district level from Thursday to protest the Tamil Nadu government's "high-handedness". While attacking Jayalalitha, Togadia alleged that she was behaving "irresponsibly" and demanded that the case be transferred to some other state as the state government as well as the state police have "lost credibility". He further alleged, "There is no credibility in the case against the Sankaracharyas. The charges against them are ridiculous". He said that the arrest of junior pontiff has exposed the motives of Jayalalithaa". "She has been behaving irresponsibly even earlier which was clear by the treatment she meted out to former Chief Minister M Karunanidhi," he said. The firebrand Hindu leader asked for immediate central intervention and dismissal of the Jayalalitha government by invoking article 356 of the Constitution.