Sankararaman murder case: 7 prosecution witnesses turn hostile
Puducherry | Wednesday, Jan 20 2010 IST
 

Seven more prosecution witnesses (PWs) turned hostile in the sensational Sankararaman murder case, in which Kanchi Acharyas Jayendra Saraswathi and Vijyendra Saraswathi are the prime accused, even as the examination and cross-examination of the PWs continued in the Principal District and Sessions Court here today.

With this, the total number of PWs turning hostile in the case rose to 19 when the examination and cross examination of 40 PWs were completed.

Already 12 PWs had turned hostile and today Datchinamurty, Manimaran, Ezhumalai, Mani, Saravanan, Adikesavan and Reena contradicted their earlier statement and were declared hostile by special public prosecutor N Devadoss.

Eleven of the 24 accused, including the Acharyas, failed to turn up before the court and seperate petitions citing the reasons for their absence were filed by their respective counsels.

On completion of the examination and cross-examination of the seven PWs, the Principal District and Sessions Judge D Krishna Raja posted the case for January 21 when the approvar Ravi Subramanian and two more PWs would be examined and cross-examined.

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