Author: PTI
Publication: The Hindu
Date: December 9, 2004
Columnist and auditor S. Gurumurthy
was today questioned by the special police team investigating the Sankararaman
murder case in connection with a series of articles he had written in an
English daily on the case.
Emerging from the special team's
headquarters here, he told reporters that the police were "clearly disturbed
over my articles" and said his summoning was a "clear warning" to all journalists
not to write anything against the police.
Gurumurthy appeared before the police
responding to the summons issued by Chief Investigating Officer in the
case ADSP S.P. Sakthivel and the enquiry lasted nearly two hours.
The writer said that in the summons
police had stated that the four articles written by him in the Indian Express
gave room to think that he had information to impart to the police on the
murder of Sankararaman, in connection with which Kanchi Seer Jayendra Saraswathi
has been arrested.
Stating that he was not a witness
but only a commentator, Gurumurthy said "obviously, the police are disturbed
over my articles. They read it out line by line and asked for the source
of those lines."