Thursday, February 3 2005 19:32 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Kancheepuram: Raghu, brother of Kanchi junior Shankaracharya Vijayendra Saraswathi, today (Feb 3, 2005) told a local court that he had neither made any confession nor any statement to the police in the Sankararaman murder case as reported in a section of the media.

Raghu made the submission before Judicial First Class Magistrate G Uthamaraja when he was produced before him for remand extension, but the latter refused to record it.

He was brought to the court along with Vijayendra Saraswathi and 14 other accused in the case.

In the middle of the remand proceedings, Raghu moved closer to the Magistrate and in a loud voice said he needed to tell something.

"The papers have published news that I have confessed or made some statement to the police during interrogation. I want to say here that it is all untrue. I have made no such statement," he said.

The Magistrate told Raghu that the court was not the place to be used for refuting media reports and declined to record his protest regarding the reports carried recently.

Later, Mutt counsel A Shanmugham, talking to reporters, charged the police with fabricating a statement and claiming that it was witnessed by two persons. It was all wrong and Raghu wanted to bring this to the notice of the court and others, he added.