Karmapa yet to confirm he received court summons: Cops

The Karmapa’s office,however,had denied allegations that the leader had refused to accept the summons,claiming that he is in Bodh Gaya till the second week of March. “It is wrong and improper to say that he (Karmapa) has refused to receive the summons. The fact is that he is not in Dharamsala for more than 15 days,” an official at the Karmapa’s office said.

The Karmapa administration spokesman said the trust has been offering “fullest cooperation” to the police and other authorities and it has complete faith in the justice system. “From the beginning,the Karmapa office of administration has said that his holiness has full trust in the Indian legal system and that he will cooperate and follow due process. We share his confidence that his innocence will be affirmed in the end,” he said.

The case is related to last year’s arrests of Rabgay Choesang aka Shakti Lama along with some locals after some cash was seized from the vehicle of a Dharamshala-based property dealer K P Bhardwaj and subsequent raids were carried out at Gyuto monastery near Dharamsala. Foreign currencies of 26 countries,valued at around Rs 7 crore were unearthed from the monastery. The Karmapa’s office has been vehemently denying his role in the case and has refuted all allegations of him having committed anything illegal.