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Arrest of the Kanchi Shankaracharya

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Arrest of the Kanchi Shankaracharya
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Jayendra Saraswathi of the Kanchi math was arrested in the Sankararaman murder case; he and the other accused were acquitted in 2013.

Tamil Nadu police arrested Jayendra Saraswathi, the head of the Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham, in Andhra Pradesh on 11 November 2004 in connection with the murder of A. Sankararaman, a manager at the Varadharajaperumal temple in Kanchipuram. The arrest of a senior Hindu religious leader caused a national controversy. The Supreme Court later moved the trial to Puducherry. In November 2013 the Puducherry court acquitted all the accused.

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