TRANSFER PETITION
'TheInterest Of Justice...'
'...requires that the [Shankaracharya] trial may be transferred to a place outside the State of TamilNadu,' says the Supreme Court. '...the State machinery in Tamil Nadu is not only taking an undue interest but is going to any extent in securing the conviction of the accused by any means and to stifle even publication of any article or expression of dissent in media or press, interview by journalists or persons who have held high positions in public life and are wholly unconnected with the criminal case. The affidavits and the documents placed on record conclusively establish that a serious attempt has been made by the State machinery to launch criminal prosecution against lawyers, who may be even remotely connected with the defence of the accused.'