"Though I was not physically tortured, I was mentally and psychologically tortured in police custody. The police officials induced me to speak over mobile to several persons, which I declined with folded hands," he was quoted as saying by NDA MPs.
"Though I was not physically tortured, I was mentally and psychologically tortured in police custody. The police officials induced me to speak over mobile to several persons, which I declined with folded hands," he was quoted as saying by NDA MPs.
Three special teams are on the lookout for the two prime accused, Appu and Ravi Subramaniam.
First Class Judicial Magistrate G Uthamaraj extended the remand till Dec 23 through the video-conferencing facility from the Chengalpattu sessions court.
A bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan said that the state of Puducherry, where the trial was shifted from Tamil Nadu, can appoint the public prosecutor and the case will continue there. Jayendra Saraswati had challenged the appointment of a public prosecutor from Tamil Nadu for holding trial in the case, which was shifted to Puducherry on the direction of the apex court.
After completing the pre-charge formalities, Judicial First Class Magistrate G Uthamraj sent the case file to principal district judge, Chengalpattu, who will assign the case to a sessions judge.
The Madras high court on Thursday had ordered his release on bail in the Sankararaman murder case.
The detention comes a day after the charge sheet was filed against Kanchi Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswati and the junior seer in the case.
Mutt advocate A Shanmugham told the \nthe Special Investigation Team probing the cases against the Kanchi seers that the summons were not legally enforceable.
The junior seer has now be questioned twice in three days.
Appu, alias Krishnasamy, was interrogated in a hotel in Mamallpuram in Kanchipuram district throughout Sunday night.
Principal Sessions Judge P Murugesan dismissed the bail petition saying it was not maintainable.
"It was not a decision I took happily. But circumstances compelled me to do my duty," said the Tamil Nadu chief minister.
K Premkumar, heading the investigation into the Sankararaman murder case in which Kanchi seer Jayendra Saraswathi has been arrested, has been brough back as the SP, Kanchipuram.
An application in this regard will be moved before Kanchipuram First Class Judicial Magistrate G Uttamarjan when the senior pontiff is produced before the court, mutt officials said.
The police on Friday filed a charge sheet in the sensational murder case that led to the arrest of both the pontiff and his deputy.
The Tamil Nadu chief minister dismissed apprehensions that the arrest would disrupt daily prayers at the mutt.
The seer had spent two months in custody in connection with a murder case.
The arrest was made at the Kanchi mutt at around 1800 IST.
The Supreme Court will give its verdict on the bail application of Kanchi Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswati in the Sankararaman murder case on Monday.
The seer, in his petition, said the Madras high court had erred by not considering the basis of facts narrated by the prosecution.
Shankaracharya's counsel objected to the petition saying no one except him has been authorised to file the petition on behalf of the mutt and the Shankaracharya.
The prosecution had told the Madras high court on Monday that the pontiff had extensive telephonic conversations with Usha at Srirangam.
Kathiravan told a remand court in Kanchipuram that the police tortured him right from November 3, the day he was arrested.
The Supreme Court Friday issued notice to the state of Tamil Nadu on a petition filed by K G Kumaraswamy alias Appu, prime accused in the Sankararaman murder case.
The outfit also refused to comment on the rejection by the Muslim Law Board of Kanchi seer's proposals to resolve the Ayodhya issue.
VHP leader Pravin Togadia insisted any negotiated settlement should involve handing over the disputed site to Hindus unconditionally.
The pontiff's fresh peace initiative has been rejected by both the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and the All India Muslim Personal Law Board while the Centre has termed it as a 'personal initiative'.
On Sunday, he had said that Muslim religious leaders were prepared to hand over the disputed site in Ayodhya to Hindu religious heads.
The Supreme Court on Monday granted him bail in the Sankararaman murder case with the condition that he will not visit the Kanchi mutt till investigations in the case are over.
The TN government requested the SC Bench, headed by Chief Justice R C Lahoti, to hear the Special Leave Petition along with the appeal filed by the seer seeking bail in the Sankararaman murder case, which the court refused.\n
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