CHENNAI, INDIA, April 29, 2016 (The Hindu): A sessions Court here on Friday acquitted the 80-year-old Kanchi Acharya, Jayendra Saraswati, and eight others in connection with the decade-old auditor Radhakrishnan assault case. “All the accused are acquitted, you are free to go,” the Judge said when the case came up for pronouncing order.
The Acharya, who appeared before the court accompanied by a posse of lawyers and his disciples, was allowed to sit and answer over 90 questions that ran to over 63 pages. He submitted that all the allegations against him was false.
On September 20, 2002, Mr. Radhakrishnan, a former associate of the Kanchi Mutt in Kancheepuram, was attacked with deadly weapons in which he and his wife were seriously injured. The Foreshore Estate police registered case against Jayendra Saraswati and 11 others in connection with the attack.