The state police have also prepared a Special Leave Petition to challenge Monday's high court order granting bail to the Shankaracharya in the Radhakrishnan assault case.
Sundaresa Iyer is a confidant of incarcerated Kanchi Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswati, who is the prime accused in the murder of temple official Sankararaman and the assault on former mutt employee Radhakrishnan.
'Everyone has prejudged him, and they have already convicted the Shankaracharya. The press has convicted him. The politicians have convicted him,' says Cho Ramaswamy.
Kanchi Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswati on Thursday filed another petition in the Supreme Court seeking bail in a attempt-to-murder case.
The BJP is seeking to make an issue out of Kanchi Shankaracharya's arrest and Jharkhand Mukthi Morcha chief Shibu Soren's reinduction into the Union Cabinet.
'The Supreme Court has set certain guidelines on whom to arrest or whom not to arrest for what offence,' he said.
He urged Muslims not to make Ayodhya a 'prestige issue'.
The outfit's international president Ashok Singhal said there was no need for a new mosque in Ayodhya.
He told Paul Dinakaran that some people were misleading the minority community on the issue to gain political mileage.
According to Yadav's counsel, the two cases have a lot in common.
Granting the bail, Justice R Balasubramaniam directed the Seer to furnish a personal bond for Rs 25,000 with two sureties for like amount.
The court directed the Tamil Nadu police to produce the entire case diary in original before it on January 6 for further hearing.
The 74-year-old singer performed at the Shanmukhananda Hall in central Mumbai.
God is still existing in the site. Now he is in a makeshift hut. Later, he will be installed in a temple, Jayendra Saraswati.
"It (mosque) should be built where it is required....It is not required in Ayodhya where people are already worshipping...," the seer told NDTV 24X7.
'We don't want him to get embroiled in any controversy,' Minister of State for Home Swami Chinmayananda said.
While there was no official communication about the closed-door meeting, speculation was rife that the Kanchi seer had been sent by Prime Minister Narendra Modi with some secret formula for an amicable settlement to the centuries-old dispute that had triggered several incidents of communal violence across the country in the past.
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