Wednesday, January 19 2005 19:18 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Kancheepuram: The Junior Pontiff of the Kanchi Sankara Mutt, Vijayendra Saraswathi, whose police custody came to an end at 1700 hrs (IST) today (Jan 19, 2005), was remanded to judicial custody till January 24 by a court in Kancheepuram this evening.

Police, which took the junior Seer into custody for interrogation yesterday (Jan 18, 2005), produced him before the first class judicial magistrate G Uthamaraj.

Vijayendra Saraswathi was later taken to the central prison at Chennai.

The junior Acharya was arrested in connection with the Sankararaman murder case on January 10 and had been made as the second accused in the case, the first accused being the Kanchi Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswathi.

Meanwhile, the Chengalpattu sessions court adjourned the hearing on the bail plea of Vijayendra to January 25, following a request from the prosecution.

Judge S Vanagamudi also adjourned the bail petitions of Raghu, brother of Vijayendra Saraswathi and Mutt manager Sundaresa Iyer, to that day.

The prosecution sought time to enable Supreme Court senior advocate K T S Tulsi to appear on its behalf.