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CHENNAI, INDIA, November 29, 2004: Kanchi Sankaracharya Jayendra Saraswathi has described as an “absolute lie” the police claim that he had confessed to his involvement in the Sankararaman murder, Tamil Nadu BJP Unit President C. P. Radhakrishnan, who met the seer earlier in the day, claimed on Monday night. “I have not committed any mistake. Why should I make a confessional statement,” the seer, arrested as the prime accused in the case, had told him (Radhakrishnan) and senior party colleague Sushma Swaraj when they called on the former at the Vellore Prison, Radhakrishnan told PTI. Radhakrishnan said the health of the seer was alright, but he (the seer) was worried about attempts aimed at character assassination. He was also bothered about the attempts to tarnish the reputation of the mutt, Radhakrishnan said. While opposing the bail application of the seer in the Madras High Court, senior counsel K. T. S. Tulsi, appearing for the Tamil Nadu Government, had claimed that the seer had confessed to his role in the murder of Sankarraman, manager of Varadraja Perumal temple in Kancheepuram. The court today commenced hearing on the second bail application filed by the Sankaracharya, remanded to judicial custody till December 10 in the case and lodged in the Vellore prison.

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