(MENAFN- Gulf Times) Popular actor and TV show host Daadi Balaji's wife Nithya has filed a police complaint against her husband alleging domestic violence.
Nithya claims Balaji physically abuses and insults her after consuming alcohol. She said Balaji had even influenced police to dismiss the case until she approached the city police commissioner's office.
The couple have a daughter and Nithya said she is not able to go back to her parents' home as she had married Balaji without their consent. Nithya said Balaji had lived off her salary early in their marriage but became abusive after achieving fame.
Balaji began his career as a comedy actor and has acted in dozens of films in two decades. However he became popular only through television, particularly Vijay TV, where he currently hosts three talent shows. Balaji dismissed Nithya's claims terming them as ‘a small marital dispute'.
Investigations are underway.
Rajnikanth'sdaughtergranted divorce
Tamil film icon Rajnikanth's younger daughter Soundarya has been officially granted divorce from her businessman husband, Ashwin Ramkumar, by a family court in Chennai.
The couple wed in 2010 and have a four-year-old son Ved. Soundarya has confirmed through social media that they had separated through mutual consent but did not give details about child's custody.
Soundarya is a film producer and animation enthusiast. Her films cover Sultan the warrior, Kochadaiiyan and Vellai Illa Pattadhari-II.
Businessman heldin terror probe
A 36-year-old businessman was arrested in Chennai by a Rajasthan police team for suspected links to terror outfits.
Haroon Rashid, a native of Ramanathapuram district, owned a mobile phone and money exchange business in Chennai. He was arrested based on a tip off from another youth apprehended in February in Rajasthan.
Police claim that Haroon helped to transfer cash through conduits to terror organisations like Isis on the pretext of selling mobile phones. He was taken to Rajasthan accompanied by his elder brother. In a separate incident, two militants of the banned National Democratic Front of Bodoland from Assam were arrested from Coimbatore.
K Upan Posumatri and N Bikram Posumatri were tracked down based on an interstate alert from the directorate of military intelligence. They had been living in Coimbatore with their families since 2014. Their families were let off with a warning. Investigations are underway.
Computer operatorcommits suicide
A 29-year-old computer operator working at the late chief minister Jayaram Jayalalithaa's Kodanad estate committed suicide by hanging at his house in the nearby Kotagiri hill resort.
Police have ruled out a suspicion that Dinesh's death was linked to the deaths of four employees of Kodanad estate earlier this year. The police said his suicide note stated he had ended his life due to failing eyesight and his girlfriend's refusal to marry him. Police added that Dinesh was just a data entry operator with no access to important files in Jayalalithaa's estate.
Meanwhile investigations continue into the death of a security guard and Jayalalithaa's former car driver in April. The two died the same week. While the guard died in an armed attack at the estate the driver was killed in a road accident. Another car driver at the estate too lost his wife and daughter in a road accident near Kerala and is under judicial custody. Their links to Jayalalithaa's property documents stored in Kodanad are under the police scanner.
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