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Thursday, Nov 25, 2004

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Acharya booked for serious offences in Mandaveli attack case

By K.T. Sangameswaran

CHENNAI, NOV. 24. The Kanchi Sankaracharya, Sri Jayendra Saraswathi, has been booked for serious offences, including attempt to murder and causing hurt with dangerous weapons in a second case against him on the attack on a former Mutt associate here two years ago.

The Acharya, who is in the Vellore jail in connection with the murder of Sankararaman, manager of the Varadarajaperumal Temple at Kancheepuram, was formally arrested on Tuesday in the case of attack on S. Radhakrishnan, his wife and another person at their house on Norton First Street, Mandaveli, here on September 20, 2002.

A two-member gang barged into the house, attacked the three. The motive was not known then.

Soon after the incident, the Foreshore Estate police registered a case (FIR no.859/2002) under Sections 307 (attempt to murder), 324 (voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means) and 452 (house-trespass after preparation for hurt, assault or wrongful restraint) of the Indian Penal Code, sources told The Hindu .

Evidence found

The city police failed to make any headway in the case. However, the police probing the Sankararaman murder found that two of the arrested were also involved in the Mandaveli incident.

Following this, the investigation, handled by the city police, was handed over to the special team, headed by the Additional Superintendent, S.P. Sakthivel, probing the Sankararaman murder.

The arrest memo on the Mandaveli incident was served on the Acharya in the prison yesterday.

Sri Jayendra Saraswathi is to be produced before a magistrate at Saidapet here in a couple of days.

Sri Jayendra Saraswathi has already been arrested in the Sankararaman murder case registered by the Vishnu Kanchi police under Sections 302 (punishment for murder), 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC.

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