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NEW DELHI, November 15, 2004: Condemning the arrest of Hindu pontiff Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswathi, various Muslim clerics Monday came out in his support, demanding his immediate release and dropping of all charges against him. Imam Bukhari, the chief cleric of India’s largest mosque Jama Masjid, was among prominent Muslim religious leaders who strongly condemned the arrest of the pontiff and his treatment in jail. Jayendra Saraswathi, head of the Kanchipuram Mutt (monastic order) in Tamil Nadu, was arrested Thursday for his alleged involvement in the murder of Sankara Raman, a manager of the Varadaraja Perumal temple in the same town. In their statement, Muslim leaders said putting a “senior religious leader” of this stature with other criminals in jail was “highly deplorable.”

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