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Coimbatore
Court acquits Sankaracharya in auditor assault case
April 29, 2016
A sessions court on Friday acquitting Kanchi Sankaracharya Sri Jayendra Saraswathi in connection with a auditor assault case came as a big relief to him.
Along with Sankaracharya, Kanchi Mutt Manager N. Sundaresa Iyer and Junior Acharya Vijayendra Saraswathi’s brother Raghu and six others were also acquitted by the court.
According to the case, former auditor of the Kanchi Mutt S. Radhakrishnan was allegedly assaulted by a gang at his Mandaveli residence in Chennai on September 20, 2002.
Police had registered a case against 12 people, including Jayendra Saraswathi. The charge sheet was filed in 2006 for offences, including criminal conspiracy and attempt to murder, and a total of 55 witnesses were examined by the prosecution.
The gang had attacked Radhakrishnan assuming that he was writing letters in the pseudo name of Somasekhara Ghanapadigal highlighting the alleged irregularities in the mutt.
Of the 12 accused, two of them, Appu and Kathiravan, died during the pendency of the case and Ravi Subramaniam turned approver.
