Ill-treatment to the Jr. Acharya--Some revelations

As the people saw through Jayalalithaa’s game and the Himalayan heights of her low-level vendetta at work, there came shocking revelations about the uncouth behavior of Jayaa’s police, as reported by H. Raja, BJP MLA and General Secretary of Tamil Nadu State BJP:

The arrest of Junior Acharya was executed by one Rajamani, DSP of Kanchipuram. On entering the Kanchi Math, this DSP went straight to the Junior Acharya and shouted at him with these disparaging words in Tamil: “dai veliye vada” (“Come out you fellow”). When the Junior Acharya requested him to give half an hour time to perform pooja, the DSP again shouted at the Acharya abusively in Tamil: “unakku yedakk pooja. Udane veliye vaada” (“Stop pooja and get out immediately”). Then the Acharya stopped the pooja and just before going along the DSP in question, went straight to the Paramacharya’s Adhisthanan (Samadhi) to offer prayers. The DSP then immediately ordered the accompanying constables in Tamil: “dai avan pin pakkamai tappi viduvaan. Pinpakkam pongada” (“He will escape from the back yard. Therefore rush there.”

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Arrest just for shouting slogans

Soon after the arrest of the Junior Acharya, all the devotees present in the Math were ordered to get out. Outside the Math about 100 devotees had assembled. While most of them were in tears because of the ill-treatment to and the arrest of the junior Acharya, some of them started shouting slogans in Tamil against the police atrocities: “Police araajagam oziga” (“Down, down with the Police atrocities”). The police then resorted to a mild lath charge on the assembled devotees and those who shouted slogans were immediately arrested and taken away.

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Interrogation with a pistol on his forehead

When Sunderesa Iyer, the Manager of the Kanchi Math was being interrogated by Police at the SIT office at Kanchipuram, a pistol was held on his forehead of and he was asked to confess that the Senior Acharya was behind the murder and that money was paid to the hired goons.” This was later revealed Sunderesa Iyer to the devotees at the Math as also to H. Raja, MLA.

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She got the Math Goshala removed

The Shankar Math was running a Goshala at Sri Ekambareswar Temple at Kanchipuram for about a decade. There were more than 100 cows in the Goshala. Through the HR & CE Department, Jayalitha got the Math Goshala removed from there and the Math had to shift all the 100 cows to the Math’s own place at Enathur, a nearby village.

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Her political terrorism

Manindra Singh Bitta, president of the Anti-Terrorist Front, and leader of the Haryana Congress Youth Wing, who called on the Kanchi Acharya at Kalavai on last Sunday, said that his organization was the first one in Delhi to protest against the arrest of the Acharya. He described the Acharya’s arrest as “political terrorism.” Such terrorism used to be perpetrated only against politicians, but Sri Jayendra Saraswati was the first religious leader to be subjected to political terrorism. Mr. Bitta visited the Shankara Math and offered prayers at the Samadhi of the previous Senior Acharya.

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The Judge puts Jayalalithaa’s police squarely in the dock

The Madras High court came down heavily on the prosecution in the Radhakrishnan assault case for inordinate delay in investigation. It observed that the two-year probe delay created doubts over investigation process.

Justice M. Thanikachalam hearing a batch of bail pleas by the co-accused pointed out that the date of occurrence was Sept. 20, 2002, while the wheel of investigation was set in motion only on No. 6 last. “Why the inordinate delay? What is the motive for investigation? I must know what the investigating agency was doing for the past two years?”

Justice Thanikachalam hurled a barrage of questions at Public Prosecutor K. Duraiswamy, who was opposing the bail pleas--“When did the wheel of investigation in the case move? What do you say for a delay of two years? Were all laws under a standstill? Was the investigation under hydraulic brakes? Are the police going to cite Kanchi Varadaraja Perumal and Kanchi Kamakshi as eye-witness in this case also? (The Superintendent of Police K Prem Kumar had told the media the other say that Lord Varadarajar was the wetness of the murder of Sankararaman).

Justice Thanikachalam also noted that the inordinate delay investigation had raised many doubts over the role of police in conducting investigation. “What is the role of police in two years? I must know how the investigation agency had functioned” the Judge observed.

When the Public Prosecutor told the court that no material was available to proceed with the case initially and investigation commenced on Nov. 6 last year as soon as the police obtained some clues, the judge wanted to know whether the case dairy contained such details. “Does you case diary show that investigation was not purseued for want of material only? What is the motive for Prosecution? Shall I presume that in order to investigate a crime you will wait for another crime to be committed? The victim has given in writing specially identifying who are suspected persons.”

When the Public Prosecutor submitted that there was indeed negligence on the part of the police in the initial stages and that the breakthrough was made in the case during investigation in the Sankararaman murder case, the judge asked: “Were all laws standstill during the past tow years?”

When the judge wanted to know what were the materials available against the other accused, the Public Prosecutor said the police had also recovered some weapons. “After two years, you say weapons were recovered, and you want the court to believe it, isn’t it?” the Judge asked him sharply.

After hearing arguments and counter-arguments, the Judge reserved his order on the petition.