Summons to junior Kanchi seer withdrawn

Press Trust Of India

Posted online: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 at 1502 hours IST
Updated: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 at 1542 hours IST

Kancheepuram, January 4: The Special Investigation Team probing the Sankararaman murder and Radhakrishnan assault cases, has withdrawn the summons issued by it to junior acharya of the Kanchi mutt, Vijayendra

Saraswathi, to appear before it on Tuesday morning.

SIT intimated the mutt about the withdrawal of the summons last night, mutt lawyer A Shanmugham told reporters here today.

The junior seer has already been questioned by the sit on December 26 and 28 and was to appear before the investigators for the third time on Tuesday morning.

The investigators told the mutt that the date for further interrogation, if needed, would be intimated to them, he said.

Asked if the mutt was planning to appeal for anticipatory bail for

Vijyendra Saraswathi, he said, "they did not see any necessity for it".

Shanmugham said the mutt would move a special leave petition in the Supreme Court on January 6 to allow Kanchi seer Jayendra Saraswathi to be present at the 'aradhana' ceremony for late Chandrasekhara Saraswathi, slated for Friday.

The 'aradhana', in remembrance of the late acharya, must be done only by the 'peetathipathi' as it is like a ceremony done by a son for his father.

They would move the Supreme Court if the seer, presently lodged in vellore prison, did not get bail from the apex court.