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Wife withdraws divorce petition against Tamil Nadu CM Vijay
Sankgeetha, wife of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay, has withdrawn her divorce petition in a Chengelpattu family court. Appearing via video-conference on Friday, she confirmed she did not wish to…
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Sankgeetha, wife of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay, has withdrawn her divorce petition in a Chengelpattu family court. Appearing via video-conference on Friday, she confirmed she did not wish to proceed. The court granted her the liberty to refile the plea in future. The counsel for Vijay raised no objection.
Sankgeetha had filed the petition last year under the Special Marriage Act, 1954, accusing Vijay of an extra-marital relationship with an actress and subjecting her to 'persistent mental cruelty, neglect and desertion.' The couple's marriage was registered in the UK in 1998, with a ceremonial wedding in Chennai in 1999.
The Indian Opinion
The withdrawal does not erase the serious accusations of mental cruelty and alleged extra-marital affairs that Sankgeetha had made in court. Some will spin this as a personal reconciliation, others as a political necessity for Chief Minister Vijay. But the court has explicitly allowed her to refile the plea. The real test is whether she ever does, and whether the CM will now face calls for a transparent response to the original allegations.
Source: rediff.com
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