Sankararaman murder case

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The Sankararaman murder case concerned the murder of Sankararaman, the manager of the Varadharaja Perumal Temple in Kanchipuram, a town in the state of Tamil Nadu. He was murdered on the temple premises on 3 September 2004. The Shankaracharya of the Kanchi Mutt, Jayendra Saraswathi, and his designated successor Vijayendra Saraswati were accused of involvement in the killing. In November 2004, the leader of the opposition, M. Karunanidhi, said that although he had initially welcomed Jayendra Saraswathi's arrest he had come to "strongly feel that it could be due to personal enmity", and that there was "personal vengeance and motives" behind the way the arrest had been handled. The report by investigative journalist Dhamodaran Prakash in the Tamil weekly Nakkeeran and the confession by the surrendered, lead to the arrest of Jayendra Saraswati and Vijayendra Saraswati, the seers of the Kanchi Mutt, a popular South Indian monastic institution. Sankararaman is alleged to have constantly leveled...

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