Timeline:


Ø September 3, 2004: Manager of Sri Varadharaswamy temple in Kancheepuram A Sankararaman murdered on temple premises.

Ø November 11, 2004: Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswathi  arrested from Mehboobnagar, Andhra Pradesh.

Ø January 10, 2005: Junior Shankaracharya Vijayendra Saraswathi is arrested

Ø September 3, 2004 to January 10, 2005: Twenty-four persons, including the two seers and two other mutt officials and brother of the junior seer, arrested

Ø January 10, 2005: Jayendra Saraswati  granted bail

Ø February 10, 2005: Vijayendra Saraswati gets bail

Ø October 26, 2005: The Supreme Court transfers the case from a Chengalpet court to a Puducherry court on a special leave petition filed by the senior Shankaracharya. On his plea, the apex court ordered appointment of public prosecutor from Puducherry to conduct the trial

Ø November 27, 2005: Trial begins

Ø November 2005 to November 2013:  187 witnesses are examined and re-examined by the prosecution and defence counsels. Eighty-two witnesses and a lone approver, Ravi Subramanian, turn hostile

Ø November 2005 to November 2013: Four judges, Chinnapandi, D Krishnaraja, T Ramasamy and C S Murugan, hear the case

Ø August, 2011: Madras High Court  stays trial after a petition alleges attempts to influence case

Ø November, 2011: A district judge submits report to the registrar general (vigilance) on the allegation

Ø February, 2012: High Court  replaces judge T Ramasamy with C S Murugan

Ø August, 2012: A local court directs the authorities concerned to hand over copies of audio and video cassettes of the case proceedings to Anand Sharma following a petition

Ø August 2012: The Madras high court stays a lower court order to provide copies to Anand Sharma following a petition by one of the accused people M Kathiravan

Ø March, 2013: M Kathiravan murdered

Ø November 12, 2013: Court announces that the verdict will be pronounced on November 27