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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.
Shankaracharya's counsel Fali S Nariman pointed out 'contradictions' in the evidence cited against the seer by the Tamil Nadu police.
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.
'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.
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.
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".
The order on the prosecution application, seeking five days' custody, was delayed for some time.
The Shankaracharya was brought in a convoy of cars from the Vellore prison at 1115 IST to the court of a first class judicial magistrate.
The hearing remained inconclusive today.
Joshi termed as 'absurd notion' the prosecution's view that the Shankaracharya could poison himself if he was allowed to cook his own food in jail.
'The Supreme Court has set certain guidelines on whom to arrest or whom not to arrest for what offence,' he said.
Dharnas, rallies and fast are the means through which the protest is being expressed.
The bail petitions of Appu, Kadiravan, Anil and Bhasker have been dismissed. They will also be present on Thursday at the Chengalpattu court.
The Judge directed Public Prosecutor Duraisamy to inform the court the government's stand by 1500 IST on Friday and file his counter.
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According to Yadav's counsel, the two cases have a lot in common.
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.
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