Gurumurthy questioned by special police team

Author: PTI
Publication: The Hindu

Columnist and auditor S. Gurumurthy was today questioned by the special police team investigating the Sankararaman murder case in connection with a series of articles he had written in an English daily on the case.

Emerging from the special team's headquarters here, he told reporters that the police were "clearly disturbed over my articles" and said his summoning was a "clear warning" to all journalists not to write anything against the police.

Gurumurthy appeared before the police responding to the summons issued by Chief Investigating Officer in the case ADSP S.P. Sakthivel and the enquiry lasted nearly two hours.

The writer said that in the summons police had stated that the four articles written by him in the Indian Express gave room to think that he had information to impart to the police on the murder of Sankararaman, in connection with which Kanchi Seer Jayendra Saraswathi has been arrested.

Stating that he was not a witness but only a commentator, Gurumurthy said "obviously, the police are disturbed over my articles. They read it out line by line and asked for the source of those lines."