Kathiravan told a remand court in Kanchipuram that the police tortured him right from November 3, the day he was arrested.
This one relates to an attack on a former official of the Kanchi Mutt, G Radhakrishnan, and two others in September 2002.
The public prosecutor sought the extension of the seer's police custody saying the police needed to verify some bank accounts.
The seer 'is not in any angry or uncooperative mood', but is mostly replying in the negative. He slept most of the time since he seemed to be exhausted, the police said.
Some 18 people have been held in the murder of Sankararaman, manager of the Varadaraja Perumal temple on Sept 3.
An advocate and the president of a political outfit have filed the petitions opposing grant of bail to the seer.
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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.
A sessions court directed the Shankaracharya to furnish a personal bond for Rs 25,000 with two sureties for like amounts.
By a standing high court order, the seer cannot be arrested in the case till his bail application is disposed of.
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 Kanchi seer has moved the Principal Sessions Court in Chennai for anticipatory bail, apprehending arrest in another case.
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
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 seer Jayendra Saraswati is a co-accused in the Radhakrishnan assault case.
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Kanchi Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswati on Thursday filed another petition in the Supreme Court seeking bail in a attempt-to-murder case.
The seer is charged with having a role in the murder of a Kanchipuram temple official A Sankararaman.
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.
Opposing the Seer's bail application, prosecution lawyer K T S Tulsi informed the court that in the interrogation, which has been videographed, the seer "seems to be now realising that it was a mistake."
'Till last year they said everybody should abide by the court's verdict. This year, they turn around and say it can't be decided [by the court]. Why?' asks Yusuf H Muchhala, member of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board.
The video shows that the Tamil Nadu police entered barefoot the premises in Mehboobnagar in Andhra Pradesh where the Shankaracharya was staying.
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