The detention comes a day after the charge sheet was filed against Kanchi Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswati and the junior seer in the case.
The Supreme Court today asked the trial court at Kancheepuram, Tamil Nadu, not to frame charges against the Kanchi\nsankaracharya and the junior pontiff in the Sankararaman murder case till October 4
The HC rejected the seers' bail application on Wednesday.
The police questioned two Kanchi Mutt officials in connection with the assault on former Mutt official Radhakrishnan
The Madras high court on Thursday quashed the Tamil Nadu government's orders detaining the four accused in the Sankararaman murder case under the Goondas Act.
. Jayendra also offered 'arthi' to the idol of Adi Sankara, Mutt sources said.
The summons has been issued in connection with a case registered against columnist S Gurumurthy for misleading the investigation.
Sankararaman's widow has opposed the petition seeking transfer of the case outside Tamil Nadu.
Earlier in the day, the magistrate had extended the judicial remand of Ravi Subramaniam, who had turned approver in the case, till February 3.
Meanwhile, the Chengalpattu sessions court adjourned the hearing on Vijayendra's bail plea to January 25 following a request from the prosecution.
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 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.
Kathiravan told a remand court in Kanchipuram that the police tortured him right from November 3, the day he was arrested.
They have been booked under Section 20(1) of the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act for "contravention in relation to canabis plant and canabis."
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 bail plea was filed before Principal Sessions Judge G M Akbar Ali on Thursday.
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.
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.
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.
The seer is charged with having a role in the murder of a Kanchipuram temple official A Sankararaman.
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."
The order on the prosecution application, seeking five days' custody, was delayed for some time.
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.
The bail petitions of Appu, Kadiravan, Anil and Bhasker have been dismissed. They will also be present on Thursday at the Chengalpattu court.
Since a chargesheet has been filed in the Sankararaman murder case, the bail conditions prohibiting his entry into the mutt no longer apply, police said.
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.
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.
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