Kanchi seer was mentally tortured in police custody

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Kanchi seer was mentally tortured in custody'

 

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Chennai, December 15: Kanchi seer Jayendra Saraswathi, who has been

arrested in connection with the Sankararaman murder case, has

complained of "mental and psychological torture" while in police

custody and has denied making any confessional statement.

 

"Though I was not physically tortured, I was mentally and

psychologically tortured during my police custody. The police

officials induced me to speak over mobile to several persons, which

I declined with folded hands," he was quoted as saying by a five

member delegation of NDA MPs, which called on him at the Vellore

central prison this afternoon.

 

The team members, Balbir Punj, Rasa Singh Rawat, Jayabehn Thakkar

(all BJP),

 

Chandrakant Khare (Shiv Sena), and B J Panda (Biju Janata Dal), told

a press conference here today that the shankaracharya described

reports that he made a confessional statement to the police as

a "total lie".

 

Punj, who led the team, said the Acharya was in good health. "Let

god give wisdom to all. Let the truth come out," the seer told them,

he said. He alleged that the police had unleashed a "reign of

terror" in Kancheepuram and people were afraid of speaking even in a

closed room.

 

He charged the police with raking up many cases to create evidence

against the seer in at least one case. "In the Sankara mutt at

Kancheepuram and in that town, people are terrified, and unable to

speak as there is an atmosphere of fear," Punj said.