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Friday, Feb 25, 2005

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Lawyers' anticipatory bail plea posted for March 1

By Our Staff Reporter

KANCHEEPURAM, FEB.24. The District Sessions Court, Chengalpattu, has posted the anticipatory bail pleas of three Kanchi Sankara Mutt lawyers for March 1.

Y. Thiyagarajan and A. Shanmugham and Revathi moved the court for anticipatory bail on February 21 following a case filed by the Siva Kanchi police based on a complaint lodged by S. Chitra, wife of the accused-turned-approver, Ravi Subramaniam, in the Sankararaman murder case, on February 19.

In her complaint, Ms. Chitra stated that her husband informed that two women advocates — Ms. Nadira Banu and Ms. Revathi — threatened him in the Kancheepuram sub-jail at the instigation of their senior lawyers, Thiyagarajan and Shanmugham and the Kanchi Sankaracharya, Sri Jayendra Saraswathi, prime accused in the case. He asked his wife to approach the police for protection of his life. Counsel for the petitioners sought an interim bail to which the public prosecutor gave an undertaking that the petitioners would not be arrested till the disposal of the main petition. When the case came up for proceedings today, the public prosecutor sought one more adjournment and wanted the case be posted for hearing on March 1, which was accepted by the petitioner's counsels.

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