By: Kiran R
February 18, 2005

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The Shankaracharya episode is an eye opener to the citizen of India. Are the Indian citizens secure in this country? 

Consider this: 

1) A person is arrested without charges. That is before chargesheet is filed and investigations are complete. [Purely on the basis of unfounded malicious suspicion based on electoral politics hoping to get the 'secular' vote -> surely this happens only in India] 

2) The arrested person is forced into a 'trial by media'. The investigating agency claims it has strong evidence [of course, they 'say' they have evidence, they do not 'show' it to anybody]. The secular media (a newspaper called the 'hindu' and a tv channel called 'ndtv') take it as their personal duty and 'secular birthright' to tarnish the image of the person by selectively publishing information. The police claim to have videographed a confession [the audio and video in it are not synchronous] and leak it to media. Of course they know the video is not admissible as evidence in court. But they are not interested in gathering evidence – they want to make unsubstantiated allegations. 

3) Police claim a woman relationship angle to tarnish the image of the person. The 'secular' media make conclusions as they know of only one relationship between a man and woman. It turns out that the woman is a cancer patient who has undergone chemotherapy 100+ times and was being helped by the mutt. The police drop the story. But the damage to reputation (baseless mudslinging) has been done. 

4) The magistrate court magistrate refuses bail, so does sessions court and high court. After 60 days in jail (arrested without charges and subjected to a trial by media), the highest court of the land, the Honourable Supreme Court of India grants bail. The supreme court says there is 'no prima facie' evidence and wonders what the police said. The police initially said money was drawn from an ICICI account but there was no ICICI account in the mutt. 

5) The same day that the person is released, his junior is arrested. Journalists like Gurumurthy who wrote on behalf of the person are interrogated. Hats off to the "Indian Express" for "journalism of courage". in the English media it along with “Pioneer” were the only two newspapers that were unbiased in reporting. 

6) Witnesses retract confessions made to the police as they were done as a result of extreme torture [of course investigation is difficult, what do they do - beat up – easiest thing to do. Beat anybody up and of course he will confess]. In a perfect case of intimidation and frustration, police foist goonda act on the mutt manager who is a university gold medallist having served in RBI. Persons arrested under this act cannot get bail for 3 months. Such draconian acts in the hands of unscrupulous people will spell disaster for the country 

7) There is no prima facie case. Check these links; http://sankaracharyaarticles.blogspot.com [This site is a translation of tamil newspaper articles. They are 10000 times more accurate than the secular English newspapers] and www.kanchi-sathya.org [official site of Kanchi mutt] for detailed information. 

Mudslinging and foisting false cases on a great seer is not good for the country and its people. It is the duty of the people to protest. As in the Indian Vedic history, "truth alone will win". The sooner it wins in Kaliyug, the better.

Lastly, let us think for a moment: If this can happen to His Holiness, the Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswathi, how secure is the common citizen of the country like you and me?

Kiran R

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