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Accountant arrest baffles Mutt authorities

By Our Staff Reporter

KANCHEEPURAM, JAN. 5. The arrest of the Kanchi Sankara Mutt accountant, `kaladi' Viswanatha Iyer, on a new charge last night is said to have baffled the Mutt authorities.

While the special investigation team focussed attention on the Mutt staff to `extract' as much evidence as possible to strengthen the prosecution in the Sankararaman murder case, in which the Kanchi Sankaracharya, Sri Jayendra Saraswathi, has been cited as the first accused, the arrest of the accountant in a new case, that too on `grave' charges of tampering with accounts has put the Mutt authorities in a fix.

If the investigation team really `unearthed' tampering with records, it must have arrested Mr. Iyer on charges of `subverting' or trying to tamper with the evidence, which was required to prove the case against the Kanchi Acharya. But Mr.Iyer was booked under seven Sections of the Indian Penal Code: 420 (cheating); 463 (forgery); 465 (punishment for forgery); 467 (forgery of will or valuable security); 468 (forgery for cheating); 471 (using as genuine a forged document or an electronic record); and 474 (possessing and intending to use forged documents), the Mutt sources pointed out.

The case was registered in the Siva Kanchi police station based on a complaint from an officer of the special investigation team, said the Mutt counsel, Revathi.

The Sankararaman murder case was registered in the Vishnu Kanchi station.

She filed a `vakalat' for Mr.Iyer when he was produced before the Kancheepuram judicial magistrate, G. Uthamaraj, at his house at midnight last night.

His counsel today moved bail applications in the Kancheepuram judicial magistrate court.

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