Sankararaman murder case adjourned to August

Sankararaman murder case adjourned to August

PTI First Published : 09 Jul 2010 09:05:47 PM ISTLast Updated : 09 Jul 2010 09:14:46 PM IST
PUDUCHERRY: Hearing in the Sankararaman murder case, in which Kanchi seer Jayendra Saraswathi and his junior Vijayendra Saraswathi are the main accused, was today adjourned to August 13.
Only five of the 24 accused were present and the absentees included the two seers when the case came up before Family court judge T Ramaswamy, who is holding Additional charge of the post of Principal District and Sessions Judge following retirement of the previous incumbent D.Krishnaraja recently.
Court sources told PTI that the bail plea of Ravi Subramanian, who was present, would be taken up on July 14.
He turned hostile during examination of witnesses on January 21 this year contradicting his statements made before the court in Chengalpattu and before police.
The prosecution had moved a petition seeking to declare Ravi Subramanian, an approver and the only witness who was declared hostile, as one of the accused in the case.
Sankararaman, manager of Varadarajaperumal temple in Kancheepuram, was allegedly murdered on the premises of the temple on September 3, 2004. The two seers have been charged with criminal conspiracy and murder.
So far 95 witnesses have been examined since commencement of the trial here after the Supreme Court shifted the case from Chengalpattu district court on a petition filed by Jayendra Saraswathi in October 2005. Fifty-two witnesses have turned hostile.
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