RAJAPALAYAM/CHENNAI: The man whom she famously claimed to have abused and tortured her during their brief marriage, has filed a complaint against writer Meena Kandasamy’s father for allegedly assaulting him. The police in Rajapalayam have registered a case against six persons, including Dr Kandasamy, an academic, for ‘assaulting’ Dharmaraja Gunasekaran on December 29, when he was out on a walk.
Police sources said Kandasamy is a resident of Meenatchipuram, near Rajapalayam. His former son-in-law (for all of four months) Dharmaraja had been working as a professor in South Africa when he came to Rajapalayam a few days back on vacation.
On the night of December 29, when Dharmaraja was walking near Kalingaperi, he claimed that Kandasamy along with five unidentified persons attacked him using sticks and also threatened to kill him. He sustained injuries and was was admitted at the Rajapalayam Government Hospital for treatment.
The story of Meena Kandasamy’s marital discord became public when she wrote about how Dharmaraja subjected her to ‘abuse, domestic violence and marital rape’, before she left him in January 2012. Her family charged him with harassment and domestic violence in a case that is still ongoing.
As soon as she was informed that the police had registered a case against her father, Meena, who has authored Touch and Ms Militancy, posted a detailed note on her social networking page that it was a trumped up charge, “My boyfriend Cédric Gégé arrived in India in the wee hours of December 28. The next day, as Madras was under the maddest rainfall ever, we stayed indoors the entire day until a friend of the family, came to visit us. We all had a family dinner: me, GeGe, my sis, my dad, my mom. We stayed up together, talking, catching up and so on. The next day we had to catch the 6.20 am Indigo flight to Kochi, so my dad called a driver for his car and he came with us and dropped us off at the airport at 4 am or so. He then went back home, and once we reached Kochi, I called my dad at 7.30 or so on the landline and told him that we were safely in Kochi,” she recounted.
With her trademark belligerence, Kandasamy added, “There is NO WAY in the world, unless someone was using a magic carpet, or had cloned himself, that my father could have been in Rajapalayam.” The police are investigating the incident.