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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Kanchi seer Jayendra Saraswati implicated in a theft case
UNI
Thursday, December 15, 2005  14:19 IST

CHENNAI: After slapped with the Sankararaman murder case and two assault cases, the high profile Kanchi Acharya Jayendra Saraswati is now being implicated in a temple jewellery and Shivalinga idol theft case, forcing him to move the Madras High Court seeking anticipatory bail.

The alleged missing of the Sivalingam and precious jewellery from the ancient Sivan temple at Periyakudi in Tiruvarur district of Tamil Nadu has stirred a hornet's nest with a former temple employee lodging a complaint against the Acharya and eight others.

The ex-temple official Suresh, who filed the complaint before the Kottur Police, alleged that the idol of Sivalingam and jewellery, including precious Navaratna diamonds, were reported missing when the Acharya was present in the temple on November 12 this year.

The temple was situated at Periyakudi, about four km from Irulneeki village, the native place of Acharya in Tiruvarur district.

Incidentally, Periyakudi was also the birth place of Acharya's father where Jayendrar had gone to the temple only to offer worship. ''The Seer spent a mere five minutes in the temple'', sources close to him told reporters.

Following the complaint, the Acharya moved the Madras High Court, seeking anticipatory bail as he apprehended arrest in the case.

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