Shankaracharya moves SC to seek bail

NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 14 (AGENCIES)Kanchi Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswati today moved the Supreme Court seeking bail in the Shankaraman murder case.

The seer in his petition, challenging the Madras High Court order refusing to grant him bail, said the High Court had erred by not considering the basis of facts narrated by the prosecution.

The Shankaracharya said the High Court did not go into the basis of the allegations made by the Tamil Nadu police and refused him bail on the basis of the law laid down by the Supreme Court in Pappu Yadav case.

The seer said the ratio of the HC order in that particular case could not be treated as the law declared by the Court on the issue of bail.

The Kanchi Shankaracharya said the Tamil Nadu police have not been able to produce the basis behind the allegation made against him and hence he should be granted bail.