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Case against Kanchi Acharya fabricated, says Swamy

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VELLORE, JAN. 20. The Janata Party president, Subramanian Swamy, says he would prosecute the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, if her Government loses the case against the Kanchi Sankaracharya, Sri Jayendra Saraswathi.

Talking to newspersons here after meeting the Acharya at Kalavai on Thursday, Dr. Swamy said that a perusal of Ms. Jayalalithaa's detailed statement in response to the criticism of her handling of the Sankararaman murder case (in which Sri Jayendra Saraswathi has been arrested and is out on bail) and the Supreme Court orders on his bail petition "revealed that the case is weak and fabricated."

He wanted the Government to desist from filing the charge sheet in the case and even withdraw it.

S.M. Pasha, president of the Tamil Nadu Muslim Makkal Katchi who met the Sankaracharya in Kalavai, told newspersons that a memorandum would be submitted on behalf of Muslims to the Governor, Surjit Singh Barnala, in Chennai on Friday, opposing any move to take over the ancient Sankara Mutt.

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