A two-day-long 'Dharma Sansad' convened by the Shankaracharya Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati of Dwarka Peeth has passed a resolution that Sai Baba, the 19th century saint from Shirdi, should not be worshipped as a deity by the followers of 'Sanatan Dharma'.
A hundred dancers perform the Isai Vani Natyanjali to songs sung by the legendary singer, the late M S Subbulakshmi.
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In his application, the seer apprehended that he would be 'maliciously' and 'falsely' named in the case with an 'ulterior motive'.
A bonfire lit by some devotees to beat the cold could have spread to bushes at the foot of the Kailash hill, atop which several VIPs, sadhus and sants were staying in tents.
'The Ganga must be kept above all divisive politics,' says Uma Bharti.
'Ayodhya will once again become Ram's city.'
Earlier in the day, the magistrate had extended the judicial remand of Ravi Subramaniam, who had turned approver in the case, till February 3.
The participants lauded the government and the people for ensuring harmony after the apex court verdict on Saturday.
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 Supreme Court will give its verdict on the bail application of Kanchi Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswati in the Sankararaman murder case on Monday.
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Ravi Subramaniam is an accused in the murder case. He was presented before the first class judicial magistrate in Kanchipuram.
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M N Krishanmani, the Kanchi Shankaracharya's lawyer, believes Jayendra Saraswati is the victim of personal vendetta.
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.
He expressed his concern over recent reports of sexual abuse of children across the country and said that there was an urgent need to have in place an effective deterrent regime.
Besides the seer, seven others have been named in a complaint recently lodged by an employee of the temple at Tiruvarur.
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.
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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.
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 SC verdict granting bail to the seer due to 'lack of evidence is beyond the tolerance of the prosecution and its sole aim is to tarnish the reputation of the mutt', Murli Manohar Joshi said.
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.
British firm Cairn Energy, which in 2004 discovered a huge oilfield in Rajasthan, will begin early oil production from the fields in a years' time from now.
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.
