Monday, March 7 2005 17:08 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Chennai: Ravi Subramaniam, an accused in the Radhakrishnan Assault Case who had expressed his willingness to turn approver in the case, today (March 7, 2005) gave a statement under section 164 CrPC before a metropolitan magistrate, in Chennai.

The VIth Metropolitan Magistrate M Sambasivam recorded Subramaniam's statement in-camera.

The accused, who was with the magistrate for about an hour, was brought from the sub-jail at Kancheepuram, where he is lodged, under heavy police escort.

The case relates to the September 20, 2002 attack on a former Kanchi Mutt associate Radhakrishnan, his wife and an attendant at his residence in the city by two persons. Kanchi Seer Jayendra Saraswathi is an accused in the case.

Subramaniam is also accused-turned-approver in the Sankararaman murder case, in which the Shankaracharya is the main accused.