Seer booked for another murderous assault

<div class="section1"><div class="Normal"><script language="javascript">doweshowbellyad=0; </script></div> <div align="left" style="position:relative; left: 0"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="left" border="1" width="26.1%"> <colgroup> <col width="100.0%" /> </colgroup> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" f3f3f3=""> <div class="Normal"><img src="/photo/933659.cms" alt="/photo/933659.cms" border="0" /></div> </td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" f3f3f3=""> <div class="Normal"><span style="" font-size:="">Kanchi Shankaracharya being taken to the court</span></div> </td> </tr> </table></div> <div class="Normal">Kanchi Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswathi was booked in another case on Tuesday relating to a murderous assault on a former mutt official G Radhakrishnan.<br /><br />Police also claim to have enough evidence for filing a third criminal case against the Seer.<br /><br />The attempt to murder case relates to an attack on Radhakrishnan, a detractor of the pontiff, his wife and an attendant on September 20, 2002, at his residence in Mandaveli in Chennai.<br /><br />Radhakrishnan had allegedly fallen out with mutt authorities and was sacked from his job.<br /><br />According to the police, the new criminal cases were based on confessions of the 18 people in custody in connection with the murder of Sankara Raman, a former accountant of the mutt, in Kanchipuram on September 3.<br /><br />The Shankaracharya was arrested on November 11 in connection with Sankara Raman''s murder and is currently in judicial custody.<br /><br />Some of the people in custody have reportedly confessed to their involvement in a murderous assault on Radhakrishnan.<br /><br />The police are also investigating a third assault allegedly at the behest of the pontiff on another dissident, T Madhavan, a temple priest.<br /><br /><span style="" font-weight:="" bold="">Next Page: </span><a href="/articleshow/msid-933633,curpg-2.cms" style="" font-face:arialfont-size:10ptfont-weight:boldcolor:0066cc="">Mysterious death of mutt students</a><br /><br /></div> </div><div class="section2"><div class="Normal">Meanwhile, a family in Kerala has demanded a probe into the death of two students of the mutt.<br /><br />The family told the media it suspected foul play in the death of Kesavan Namboothiri, who was studying in the mutt''s vedic institute, in 1985.<br /><br />The mutt has said the Kesavan Namboothiri died of electrocution in "an accident".<br /><br />The body of his close friend and classmate Sankaran Namboothiri was found a few weeks later on a railway track near Thrissur in Kerala.<br /><br />"I now suspect that my brother died of some foul play at Kanchipuram. I cannot simply believe that he died of an electric shock, as the Mutt officials said," Narayanan Namboothiri, Kesavan''s brother, told reporters.<br /><br />He said he had sent a fax message to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalitha urging an investigation into the two deaths.<br /><br />Jayendra Saraswathi was sent to Vellore central prison in judicial custody after his three-day police remand ended Monday. His judicial custody ends on November 26.</div> </div>