Hearing in Sankararaman murder case adjourned to October 3

A local court today adjourned to October three hearing in the Sankararaman murder case in which Kanchi Sankaracharya Jayendra Saraswathi and his junior Vijayendra are the prime accused.
Only 13 of the 23 accused were present in the court and the absentees included the two seers.
The Madras High Court Advocates Association had called for boycott of proceedings today over the issue of implementation of Tamil as official language in the Court.
A total of 189 witnesses were examined during the trial between 2009 and 2011 and 80 one of them turned hostile.
Sankararaman, Manager in the Varadarajaperumal temple at Kancheepuram in Tamil Nadu was allegedly murdered on September 3, 2004, in the temple premises and the two seers have been charged under IPC sections of 120-B (criminal conspiracy) and 302 (murder).

The trial was shifted to Puducherry from Tamil Nadu following the Supreme Court direction in October 2005 on a petition filed by Jayendra Saraswathi.