During the last four days, Jayakalyani, daughter of Tamil Nadu Minister PK Sekar Babu, has been camping in Bengaluru with her husband, Sathish Kumar. They married in a mutt north of Karnataka just a few days ago before several activists and lawyers. Even when they continued to reach the Bengaluru police, seeking protection from the Minister of DMK and his family, they had continued to change the location, with fear that his father’s colleague might reach them.
According to several, Sekar Babu, who is the Minister of Hinduism and Amal Waqf Department of Tamil Nadu, has opposed relationships due to differences in their social and financial status. Jayakalyani belongs to the Naidu and Sathish community belonging to the community of Vanniyar. But Jayakalyani said that caste was not a problem in their case; Sekar Babu’s grace against Sathish is more financial standing, accusing Jayakalyani.
“We started talking to each other in 2015, after a friend introduced us,” Jayakalyani, said TNM. “We live in the same area. In the second year our relationship, our parents must know and they threaten us. Sathish was also in DMK and with party youth wings, “he said. But he felt relieved from his responsibilities in the party and removed from the party at the command of Sekar Babu, the newlywed stated.
They had married once before too, only to be found with this Sekhar Babu counterpart. “We left our house and went to Pune in August 2021,” said Jayakalyani. During that time, he said his father’s accompaniment was reported to add to Sathish’s friend and attacked his family members. “They then arrested us and brought us back to Chennai to our desires. They took him in a separate car and held him in place in Thiruvallur for two months in illegal detention. Families and friends including his younger brother, his family, along with him two Sathish young people were stored at the police station for three days, “he accused.
Sathish Kumar had several cases of ordering against him and some stated that most of them were cases inserted on him with his father and his friends. The source is close to the case of his family’s claims against him is the reason they oppose relationships. Sathish faces allegations of IPC part 341 (penalty for restraint), 294 (b) (singing, reading or saying obscene songs, ballads or words, in or near public places), 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation), 323 ( Punishment to voluntarily cause pain, among others).
Jayakalyani said that there was only one case of Sathish police faced before their relationship. “In 2014, ahead of Lok Sabha’s election, there was a case filed against him to tear the AIADMK banner. But after 2015, there was a case inserted on him on my father’s order. Fake robbery cases were also submitted against him. He was not at that location but he was still made the first defendant in this case. Inspector to investigate the case said that they saw CCTV footage and he was not seen in it. But the police were apparently under pressure, “he accused.
Among the accusations that Sathish faced, the most serious was rape. The case was reportedly submitted by the former Sathish boyfriend after their separation but Jayakalyani accused his father and his colleagues from involving him in this case too. “Before he met me, he had a relationship with another girl and they separated after a fight. They made him submit a fake cheating case against him and then converted into a rape case. In 2019, he wanted to draw a case but he was threatened not to, “he said.
TNM has not been able to access Fir fir copies related to this case or independently verify the claim by talking to the reporter.
The ministerial trust that TNM spoke to meanwhile stating that Satish was a historical sheereter and therefore the family opposed relationships.