A man from Karnataka’s Dakshina Kannada district has filed a complaint with the police on Friday, alleging that his wife, who works in Dubai, has links with terrorist organisations.
The husband, identified as one Chidananda KR, alleged that his wife, Raji Raghavan, also wants to take their daughter away with her and threatened him with dire consequences if he did not agree to her demands.
In a complaint to Superintendent of Police Sonawane Rishikesh, Chidananda stated that his wife claimed to know certain organisations and that she would “punish” him and his family.
Further, he also claimed that a person from Lakshadweep was making frequent calls and forcing him to send both his wife and daughter to Dubai.
“This person is asking me to come to Kerala and said he would give lots of money for sending my wife and daughter to Dubai for one year,” Chidananda said.
He said that his wife has been working in Dubai for the past 11 years. She comes back home once a year and stays for a month.
“I asked her to stay back in India as our children were growing up, but she refused and went to Dubai. After that, she stopped calling me and receiving my calls. Meanwhile, I got a call from my sister-in-law who informed me that my wife worked as a helper in a school-vehicle owned by a Pakistani national in Dubai,” Chidananda said in his complaint.
When Chidananda objected to Raji’s plan of taking away their daughter with her to Dubai, she told him that she would take the daughter with her only for 6 months and bring her back.
“My parents objected to the proposal [of taking the daughter to Dubai]. Raji Raghavan then demanded a divorce and insisted that after divorce, I should be taking care of the children. My daughter also opposed it and she has revealed to me that her mother had tortured her for taking my side,” Chidananda added.
“After that, she was always found busy with her phone. Whenever it rang, she used to go away to speak. She began objecting to Hindu traditions of wearing flowers in the hair and applying vermillion on the forehead during Onam celebrations,” he complained.
The complaint also states that whenever Chidananda asked his wife about what had happened to her savings, Raji gave him the contact number of one Mohammad Khasim who lived in Lakshadweep. She allegedly told him that she had lent all the money to him.
Chidananda then spoke to Khasim, who asked Chidananda to send Raji Raghavan to him. “Khasim has even threatened that if I don’t send her, they knew how to take her,” he said in his complaint.
The complaint further states that Raji went away with a stranger without informing her husband on the morning of July 27.
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Chidananda said that he had lodged a complaint with Dharmasthala police station, and was told that she is getting treatment at an Ayurveda hospital.
“I have been asked to wait for 10 days. Meanwhile, I am getting calls from Kerala to send away my wife and children. No harm should come to my wife and children. It is to be ascertained where actually she is working in Dubai and who is the person from Lakshadweep,” he said.
Chidananda told reporters that he suspects his wife of having possible terror links, and added that the matter needs to be investigated as her behaviour is suspicious.
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