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By A. Subramani
CHENNAI, JAN. 1. The Madras High Court will pass orders on the Kanchi Acharya, Sri Jayendra Saraswathi's bail petition in the `Radhakrishnan assault case' on Monday. Justice R. Balasubramanian reserved judgment yesterday after counsel for the Acharya, M. Sathyanarayanan, and senior counsel for the prosecution, K.T.S. Tulsi, completed arguments. Mr. Tulsi, reiterating that the assailants attacked Mr. Radhakrishnan pursuant to a specific instruction from the Acharya, said the judicial confessions of another key accused, Ravi Subramaniam, would further strengthen the case. His confessional statements, recorded at Kancheepuram yesterday, would be furnished to the judge on Saturday. Mr. Sathyanarayanan said that as per the first information report Mr. Radhakrishnan clearly stated the assailants fled the scene because he and his wife raised an alarm. "There is no reference or indication that one of the assailants was accidentally injured in the process and that is why they left the scene without accomplishing their object [of murdering Mr. Radhakrishnan]." It was an incident in which only simple injury was caused, he said. The prosecution did not have any material to establish conspiracy. It relied only on the confessional statement of Kathiravan, another accused which he has since retracted. Also, the alleged recovery of weapons used for committing the crime was "a fabrication by the prosecution," Mr. Sathyanarayanan said. It was medically as well as forensically impossible at this stage for a doctor to give an opinion that they were the actual weapons. Counsel pointed out that a test identification parade was conducted more than two years after the incident, that too, after photographs of the accused were widely published.
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