B. Ramasamy, who recently married Rajya Sabha member Sasikala Pushpa, has approached the Principal district court here, seeking anticipatory bail after his second wife T. Sathyapriya filed a complaint with the Tirupparankundram all-woman police station alleging that she was being threatened by him and his family.
Principal district judge S. Sathi Kumar adjourned the case to April 4.
Ms. Sathyapriya alleged that her parents had given 90 sovereigns of gold jewellery as dowry at the time of her marriage with Mr. Ramasamy. However, he and his family members harassed her and sent her out of the house. She alleged that her marriage with Mr. Ramasamy was still valid as he had not obtained divorce. Earlier, she petitioned the Madurai Collector and filed a petition before the Family Court seeking to restrain his marriage with Ms. Pushpa.
The court held that the petitioner prima facie established the subsistence of a valid marriage. It maintained that it would be fair and reasonable to stay the contract of marriage of Mr. Ramasamy till the original petition filed by Ms. Sathyapriya was disposed of.
However, Mr. Ramasamy and Ms. Pushpa defied the orders of the court and got married at a private ceremony in New Delhi, she said.
Ms. Sathyapriya claimed that she married Mr. Ramasamy in 2014 following the death of his first wife. After he claimed to have taken up the post of Vice-Chancellor of a private university in Shimla, he sent her back to Madurai. He avoided her phone calls after she gave birth to a girl child, she said.
