The public prosecutor sought the extension of the seer's police custody saying the police needed to verify some bank accounts.
An advocate and the president of a political outfit have filed the petitions opposing grant of bail to the seer.
The arrest follows investigation into the murder of Sankararaman, who had once managed the accounts of the Mutt.
Besides the seer, seven others have been named in a complaint recently lodged by an employee of the temple at Tiruvarur.
This was stated in the chargesheet, running to 1,873 pages, filed by superintendent of police K Premkumar on January 21.
The Judicial Magistrate-I court in Kanchipuram had issued summons to the seer asking him to appear before the court to receive the copy.
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
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.
Kanchi Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswati on Thursday filed another petition in the Supreme Court seeking bail in a attempt-to-murder case.
The hearing was adjourned after public prosecutor K Duraisamy sought time on the ground that Supreme Court lawyer Tulsi could come to the court only on Monday to reply to additional citations put forward by the seer's counsel.
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 day-long bandh has been called by the VHP to give vent to the feelings of Hindus over the unjust arrest of the Kanchi seer.
Justice A K Rajan reserved his orders on Saturday on the petition filed by the seer.
The BJP has dubbed the seer's arrest as an "assault on religion".
Based on information provided by two people arrested in Chennai on November 9, the police got information about the seer's links with those hired to murder the temple official, she said.
Dharnas, rallies and fast are the means through which the protest is being expressed.
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Kanchi Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswathi offered the crown costing Rs 1.5 crore.
The head of a religious mutt in Varanasi has slammed Bharatiya Janata Party and its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi for using the temple town to further their political ambitions.
There is evidence that Sankararaman had more resentment towards the junior seer, his brother Raghu and Sundaresa Iyer than the senior seer, the judge said.
According to Yadav's counsel, the two cases have a lot in common.
"None is above law. Whatever the misfortune I am suffering, I am okay," the seer was quoted as saying by former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Uma Bharti, who met him in jail in Vellore on Tuesday.
The 74-year-old singer performed at the Shanmukhananda Hall in central Mumbai.
'The Shankaracharya's supporters are shooting the messenger. What is Jayalalithaa's fault? Is it that she has allowed law to take its own course? Is she not supposed to?' asks Tamil Nadu government counsel, K T S Tulsi.
Veteran journalist Cho Ramaswamy says the Tamil Nadu police wouldn't have acted without solid evidence against the seer.
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.
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