Sessions Judge C S Murugan of the Principal District court of Puducherry pronounced the verdict on Sankaraman murder case today. Pujyasri Jayendra Saraswathi and Pujyasri Vijayendra Saraswathi have been acquitted from the murder case. The judge in his verdict said, ‘there was no substantial evidence to prove the murder charge against the accused as per the 187 witnesses examined. Eighty-two witnesses and a lone approver, Ravi Subramanian, had turned hostile’.