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CHENNAI, JANUARY 11: Exactly two months after he was arrested in connection with the Sankararaman murder case, Kanchi Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswathi was today released on bail. A beaming Shankaracharya came out from the Vellore jail at 4.30 pm and was received by BJP leader Sushma Swaraj, VHP leader Ashok Singhal, former Union Minister S Thirunavukkarasar and many devotees. Maintaining a four-day vow of silence taken earlier, he boarded a van and headed for Kalavai, some 40 km from Kancheepuram. He has been told by the Supreme Court not to enter the Mutt till the chargesheet in the case is filed. The Mutt was left virtually headless yesterday after Tamil Nadu police arrested Vijayendra Saraswathi, the junior acharya, in the same case. He was remanded to judicial custody and his lawyers today moved a sessions court for bail. HPI Adds: Other news reports say the bail was granted because the State did not provide specific evidence of animosity of the Shankaracharya toward the murdered person, and failed to connect the money paid to the alleged assailants to the Shankaracharya.

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