Three years after Kanchi Mutt seer Jayendra Saraswathi was acquitted by a Sessions Court in the Sankararaman murder case, a plea has been moved in the Madras High Court seeking the status of a complaint filed by an advocate on the alleged leak of an audiotape containing purported conversation between the prime accused and the then trial judge.
When the plea moved by V. Manikandan came up for hearing before a Division Bench of Justices N. Kirubakaran and V. Parthiban, the court directed the Government Pleader of Puducherry to get instruction from the authorities concerned on the status of the complaint.
The issue pertains to a complaint filed by advocate P. Sundararajan in 2011 about the alleged tapes containing audio recordings of purported conversations between the prime accused Jayendra Saraswathi and the then trial judge T. Ramaswamy and the financial transactions discussed in it. The case was then transferred to another judge for trial.
