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By Our Staff Reporter
CHENNAI, FEB.1. The senior Sankaracharya of the Kanchi Mutt, Sri Jayendra Saraswathi, today moved the Madras High Court seeking anticipatory bail in a case relating to forgery and falsification of the bank accounts of the Mutt. The Siva Kanchi police have registered a case against the Mutt accountant, Kaladi Viswanathan, and the manager, Sundaresa Iyer, alleging that certain pages in a ledger requisitioned by the police were missing and many entries fabricated. According to the complaint, Mr. Viswanathan told the police that he had "fabricated them" only on Iyer's instruction. The Acharya, in his petition, expressed apprehensions of arrest "by way of false implication." He said the police had already falsely implicated him in two cases and had been indulging in character assassination. He feared that he would be arrested and involved in this case with ulterior motive, especially after he had obtained bail in both the cases, and has filed an anticipatory bail plea before the Principal Sessions Judge, Chennai, in connection with the Tirukottiyur Madhavan assault case. The Acharya contended that he was in no way connected with tampering of records, and there was no question of falsification or fabrication of records by him. Claiming that the police had not come up with sufficient evidence before the Supreme Court to prove the disbursement of funds to the assailants in the Sankararaman murder case, he said: "The present case is only a feeble attempt on the part of the investigating agency to explain their failure and inability to produce the relevant and required evidence in connection with the murder case."
Orders reserved
Earlier in the morning, Justice K.P. Sivasubramaniam reserved his orders on a writ petition by the Kanchi Mutt challenging the freezing of its bank accounts numbering over 180. He reserved the judgment after the State Public Prosecutor, K. Duraisamy, furnished the details of the four cases registered against the Acharyas and others connected with the Mutt. Sundaresa Iyer has filed a habeas corpus petition in the Madras High Court challenging his detention under the Goondas Act.
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