A court in Kanchipuram on Tuesday directed the police to produce Kanchi Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswathi, arrested and remanded to judicial custody in connection with a murder case, before it on November 18.

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First Class Magistrate G Uttamaraj gave the direction when a petition filed by the police seeking the seer's custody came up for hearing.