Yamini demands Rs 20cr in damages from Ganesh Kumar

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The chief judicial magistrate on Thursday restrained K B Ganesh Kumar, MLA, from evicting his estranged wife Yamini Thankachi from their house at Vazhuthacaud here.
The directive was part of an interim order based on a petition Yamini had filed under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005.
Magistrate M B Snehalatha also ordered Kumar to desist from making any defamatory or derogatory statements against Yamini, and also not to sell the property he had been sharing with her until a settlement was reached.
In the petition filed on Thursday, Yamini levelled several allegations against Kumar, including demanding dowry, issuing death threats, and mental and physical torture, maintaining illicit relationships with several women and marital rape.
She also demanded Rs 20 crore in damages from Kumar for breaching an agreement reached in the presence of chief minister Oommen Chandy, filing a false police case and publishing her email communication to “defame” her.
Yamini alleged that Kumar, to avoid suspicion, used to take his infant son to the residences of the women with whom he had illicit relationships.
The petition also mentioned the messages found in the inbox of Kumar’s cell phone which, Yamini alleged, were sent by other women.
Despite visiting the chief minister with written complaints several times, he refused to accept them, Yamini said. The chief minister tried to pacify her and offered to settle the issue.
A written agreement was reached with Kumar in Chandy’s presence, the petitioner said. March 30 was the deadline to meet the terms and conditions. Kumar, however, retracted and filed a divorce petition citing cruelty.
Yamini also produced before the magistrate the certificates of treatment she had undergone, photographs of assault marks, and copy of the March 19 agreement.
The magistrate would take up the petition again on Friday for the respondent to file objections.