In the year 2011, Deivanai, mother of Gokul from Karur, alleged that her son was abducted, drugged and was made to sign papers to transfer crores of assets and money belonging to him. This news came out and was reported by many news channels back then. V. Senthil Balaji, currently a Minister in the Stalin-led DMK government was accused of hiding him with his money and muscle power.
It has been more than 10 years, and still there is no update or information on Gokul, who was allegedly abducted by Minister Senthil Balaji.
Speaking to News J in 2019, Deivanai accused Senthil Balaji and his men of abducting her son and grabbing property worth ₹25 crores. When Gokul resisted, they had threatened to harm his family if he doesn’t handover the properties. Deivanai further added that Senthil Balaji and his gang forcefully obtained signatures on property documents after drugging him.
It was in this circumstances that Gokul went missing. After years of searching for him, Deivanai filed a haebus corpus petition at the Madurai Bench of Madras High Court in 2019. She outrightly mentions that she suspects Senthil Balaji behind her son’s disappearance.
Now, Chief Minister and then Opposition leader MK Stalin too had spoken about this case multiple times since 2011. “The Minister accused of kidnapping has no qualification to talk about my qualification.”, read the headline of Murasoli published on 2nd April 2013.
(Murasoli – 2.4.2013)
He even quoted the issue when he came to Karur for his election campaign on 17th April 2016.
It is being reported that Stalin had given assurity to Devanai that her son would be found as soon as DMK comes back to power, on the very same day. However, 10 years on, the mother’s search for her son still goes on.
(With inputs from Kathir News)
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