"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.
Key accused Appu alias Krishnasamy and Kathiravan were brought from Cuddalore and Tiruchirapalli prisons respectively and produced before the court.
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.
In his application, the seer apprehended that he would be 'maliciously' and 'falsely' named in the case with an 'ulterior motive'.
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 move is widely seen as a fall out of the Supreme Court granting bail to Kanchi Sankaracharya Jayendra Saraswati in the Sankararaman murder case.
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.
Ravi Subramaniam is an accused in the murder case. He was presented before the first class judicial magistrate in Kanchipuram.
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.
This one relates to an attack on a former official of the Kanchi Mutt, G Radhakrishnan, and two others in September 2002.
'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.
If you had to defuse the ticking time bomb, how would you do it?
This was stated in the chargesheet, running to 1,873 pages, filed by superintendent of police K Premkumar on January 21.
The warrant would be executed on April five, the judge said.
A sessions court directed the Shankaracharya to furnish a personal bond for Rs 25,000 with two sureties for like amounts.
A video clip of Jayendra Saraswati's custodial interrogation shows he had complained that Vijayendra Saraswati was only concerned that he or his brother should not be arrested.
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.
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.
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