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Posted by: Mr. M Kumar N At: 5, Dec 2004 7:04:12 PM IST
http://eenadu.net/story.asp?qry1=16&reccount=18
Posted by: Mr. Telangana Bidda At: 4, Dec 2004 8:15:13 PM IST
Now Moorthy garu will be branded as an RSS agent for pasting an article written by Gurumurthy .. he hee heeee
Posted by: Malakpet Rowdy At: 4, Dec 2004 1:56:41 PM IST
very nice moorti gaaroo... good story presented... worth reading..
Mr. Madhukumarji i am following the tread.. this is not my first time of participating..in this thread...
I wrote my comments on the present page only.. please go thro the comments of others..
Posted by: Mr. Surya Pudipeddi At: 3, Dec 2004 4:04:16 PM IST
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It's dead. Who will do the funeral, and when?
By S Gurumurthy
Wednesday, December 1 2004 18:32 Hrs (IST)
On counter investigation we found the case against the Shankaracharya slippery. Now it turns out that the case is not just slippery, but actually groundless from Day One.
Not just that, it involves a bit of fabrication too. Yes, fabrication to fix the Acharya. The police are now running for cover. They may not give up yet, may fabricate more to put the case, which is virtually dead, on life support system.
But the case is irretrievably lost. This dramatic turn came on Wednesday (Nov 24, 2004) in Kancheepuram magistrate's court. The two criminals, on whom the police had exclusively 'relied' to name the Shankaracharya as an accused in the case, have actually turned to accuse the police as fabricators of the case itself!
Spotlight: Kanchi Jayendra's Arrest
On November 24, Kathiravan and Rajni were brought to the Kancheepuram magistrate's court for extending their judicial remand. At that time Kathiravan wished to make a statement. The prosecution protested, 'his confession having been recorded in-camera, he should not be allowed to speak'! The court overruled, asked Kathiravan to write his statement. As his hand had been rendered inoperative by police bashing, the magistrate himself recorded his statement.
In the next few minutes, speaking extempore, Kathiravan demolished the police case against the Acharya, exposed them as fabricators of the case against him.
He told the court that he, along with his friends, were arrested on November 3. Not, as the police lied, on November 9. [His lawyers had recorded this fact on Nov 3 itself]
That between November 4 and November 8, under police torture he said what the police wanted him to say. That he was kept in a Marwari's house in Uthandi, on the outskirts of Chennai for two days and beaten black and blue. That he was shown to different persons as Kathiravan [so that they may say they knew him, even though they did not know him].
Discuss this topic
That from Nov 4 to 8, he was kept in 'Paramount Hotel' in Sriperumpudur in Room Nos 108 and 109, and was tortured to confess 'as the police wanted'.
That he was made to sign on blank sheets. That on Nov 9, he was made to stay in the office of the Additional Superintendent of Police, Kancheepuram, and in the night made to say, 'whatever the police wanted him to say' in front of a video-camera and in the presence of the Tehsildar.
That he was remanded the next day, November 10. That between Nov 15 and 17 he was pressurised to make judicial confession under Sec 164 of the Penal Code 'as the police wanted'.
That he was not allowed to meet his relatives, his brother too was arrested. That.... Kathiravan went on.
All this Kathiravan told a stunned court and the public totally spontaneously. He corroborated his statements with events, places, and dates. He demonstrated that the police were fixing the Acharya through him.
He admitted that his confessions to the police and to the Tehsildar, used to arrest the Acharya, were obtained under duress. So the star witness against the Acharya in the court is today the star witness against the police in public!
But the more dangerous is the testimony of Rajni alias Chinna who also said that he was bashed up for days to tell lies against himself and the Acharya. He lost his teeth in police bashing. He exhibited his injuries to the court.
What he said was also identical to what Kathiravan said. Yet both had never met before. He may be the smoking gun against the police who know he is not involved in the crime at all! He is a petty pickpocket, cannot even wield a blade, according to insiders.
Rajni also claimed to have a copy of the telegram he had sent to the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court complaining of the torture! Statements of Kathiravan and Rajni are highly corroborated, also spontaneous. They were all along in police custody. Even their relatives were not allowed to meet them.
Kathiravan and Rajni cases are fit for the National Human Rights Commission to act suo moto. If the NHRC does not, some one will have to move it. That will expose the forces that have fabricated the case and fixed the Acharya.
Now after what Kathiravan and Rajni told the magistrate at Kancheepuram, not the Shankaracharya, but the police stand accused. But still it is Shankaracharya who is in jail and those who are accused of fixing him by fabrication are keeping him in jail.
This bizarre situation is a product of a perverted investigation and an equally perverted decision to arrest the Shankaracharya on the basis of a perverted investigation. Yes the prosecution has all but collapsed.
The only question is who will do the funeral for it and when. It can happen forthwith if the State realises it has been misled by police. Or years later though courts.
Emboldened by the dishonesty of the media the police may still attempt more fabrication to fix the Acharya. But it will get into more trouble and also get the Government into more embarrassment.
But who will admit that the case is dead? Not the media, which virtually turned the prosecutor, not the State whose police is the fixer. Then who, except the court?
Posted by: Mr. HAYAGREEVA MURTY Rachuri At: 3, Dec 2004 3:56:31 PM IST
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This could happen only to a Hindu religious leader
By S Gurumurthy
Friday, December 3 2004 14:29 Hrs (IST) - World Time
The case against the Shankaracharya of Kanchi appears to be on slippery ground. Who are the witnesses against him? Two of the several professional killers, habitual criminals, Yes, criminals, confessing to the crime as being at the instance of the Acharya.
It is no secret that these people say what the police want them to say. Still it is the confession of these criminals, which constitutes the "shocking evidence" against the Acharya.
Spotlight: Kanchi Jayendra Saraswathi's Arrest
The confessions were not before the court, but before the police officers. After one of them confessed before the police on November 10 and the Acharya arrested on that basis, he was presented in the court nine days later on November 19, the coaching to him to fix the Acharya being complete. Meanwhile, another criminal whose confession has been relied upon is still to confess before the magistrate.
But look at the story of the confessors. They are not the main actors in the killing, but just sidekicks, with whom the Acharya would never have dealt with as, even if had to, he would deal only through their leaders.
Insiders in the police say that the main characters are two, one Appu and the other Chinna. Both are still at large. Chinna, who has another name, Rajni, seems to be the principal executor. He has many murders to his credit.
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But insiders say that the police seem to have got not this Rajni alias Chinna, but some other Rajni and got him to confess to the crime. The real Rajni alias Chinna is still untraced. The real Rajni is well known in the underworld in Chennai. But the Rajni arrested is a small-time offender, who is not skilled enough to kill.
Not a figure in the underworld at all. This, if proved, could dynamite the prosecution. The public prosecutor called the Acharya "the worst criminal" on the basis of the confession of one, who may be a fake Rajni.
The other charges are that the main offender had spoken to the Acharya over phone. This is no surprise as Jayendra Saraswathi is known to be open to all. Deviating from the Mutt traditions, he entertained the worst offenders, met and blessed them. This used to offend his more conservative disciples. So receiving calls from Appu, a person charged with offence in this case, is no surprise. He must have received calls from many Appus. That cannot link the Acharya to the offender in the case.
The police have alleged that money was paid to the contract killers from the Mutt accounts. This story told in the open court on Nov 20 got changed in the affidavit on Monday (Nov 22). The police had earlier asserted that it was from the ICICI bank accounts of the Mutt. The Mutt denied that it had ICICI accounts. Now the police are searching for the bank accounts of persons other than the Mutt to fix the payments. This shows how anxious the authorities are to get at the Acharya.
Yet, such is the obsession to declare the Acharya guilty that not a single newspaper highlighted this volte-face by the police.
The prosecution is shaky. The police insiders admit that this prosecution will not succeed. But that does not matter. The prosecution has already succeeded in convicting the Acharya through the media.
So, proof is irrelevant, why, even court proceedings and eventually the judgment itself may be irrelevant. One can recall how a case against the Ananda Marg was perverted in the investigation to fix the chief of the organisation on similar facts, similar witnesses and similar events, because of lack of public vigil and scrutiny during the 1970s.
There is every possibility that using the lack of public scrutiny here too the same thing would happen. How can the Acharya get justice in this atmosphere in the state? Here the advice of 'Cho' Ramaswamy that the investigation and prosecution should be shifted to another State seems to be the only way to ensure justice to the Acharya.
Undeniably, the investigation is moving single-mindedly to fix the Acharya. This ignores another perspective, that the offenders have fixed the Acharya himself. Instead of killing the victim, fixing the Acharya could well be the motive of the killers. So it calls for a thorough re-investigation.
Applying all possibilities, including that the organisers of the crime might have fixed the Acharya and the police could well have become a victim to the fix. Without a thorough re-investigation justice will derail.
Politically, this could happen only to a Hindu religious leader. It is unthinkable that an Imam could ever be arrested in this country, and never on Ramzan Day. An Archbishop could never be arrested on Christmas Day.
But a Shankaracharya could be arrested on Deepavali Day. This sums up the content of secularism in India. Someone said on television the other day, "There were no disturbances following the arrest".
Does this not imply that it is a disqualification for the Acharya that he has peaceful followers? Is the model for religious leadership that of Shahi Imam who dared the Government to arrest him and face the consequences?
If this be the correct model for success, may be over a period of time the Hindus too will acquire that trait so that no one gloats after arresting a Shankaracharya that there is no law and order problem.
So if the Hindu religious leaders find peaceful disciples useless, they will also build a following that will qualitatively match the following of a Shahi Imam.
Posted by: Mr. HAYAGREEVA MURTY Rachuri At: 3, Dec 2004 3:55:33 PM IST
O saari thread beginning ki leda heading ki veltara plz;
Posted by: Mr. M Kumar N At: 3, Dec 2004 3:29:16 PM IST
Sankara raaman swaamini blaak mayilu chestoo chaalaa kaalamu nunDee baadha peDutunnaTTu meeDiyaa kooDaa vappukunnaTTae kadaa !!
meeroa hatya chaeyaboatunnaanu.. kaavaalanTae vachchi chitreekarinchukoanDi .. ani cheptae meeDiyaa vaallu vachchi kadhani raasukunTaaru kaanee meeru chaesae hatyani aDDukoaru.. koalaeru.. janaalaki vaartalu kaavaali.. avi vaeDi VaeDigaa garam garam gaa... anduloanee ranku kadhalanTae maree saradaa mana janaaliki.. dorikindi kadaa... leelalennainaa raastaaru.. chadavanDi.. chadivi aanandinchanDi..
Posted by: Mr. Surya Pudipeddi At: 3, Dec 2004 1:20:43 PM IST
Reasonable questions indeed ... I agree .. Never looked at it from this angle
Posted by: Malakpet Rowdy At: 3, Dec 2004 12:57:58 PM IST
Mr Nagesh,
lAyaru paTTA lEkunDA kOrTulO vAdinchachchu aitE kanuka mIru arjenTugA ilA vachchEyanDi, Dabbulu mEmichchukunTAm . bhalE tikamaka praSnalu vESEranDI mIru. I praSnalu nijangA mana Difen~su lAyaru gAru vEstE, prAsikyUshan gAriki dimma tirigi ganga veRRulettipOtAru. bhalE vAdana sAr mIdi. sUpar .
Posted by: Bahud♥♥rapu Baatasaari At: 3, Dec 2004 12:28:39 PM IST
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