Chennai, June 20 (UNI) Former AIADMK Minister M.Manikandan was
today arrested by a Special team from a house in Bengaluru following
complaints from a Malaysian-Indian woman for impregnating her and
forceful abortion.
Manikandan had a live-in relationship with the woman, who was also
an actor and was charged with miscarriage and criminally intimidating
her.
The woman a couple of weeks back lodged a complaint against Manikandan,
accusing him of cheating her following which the Adyar All Women Police
registered cases against him under various Secs of the IPC, including
376 (rape), 313 (causing miscarriage without woman’s consent), 323
(punishment for voluntarily causing hurt), 417 (punishment for cheating),
506 (i) (criminal intimidation) and the IT Act.
Soon after the police registered cases against him, Manikandan went
missing and two special teams, formed to nab him, arrested him from
a house at Bengaluru.
The Madras High Court had already denied him anticipatory bail.
In her complaint, the woman said Manikandan had cheated her after
having been in a live-in relationship with her for a few years.
She also alleged that he had promised to marry her and made her
pregnant thrice forced her for abortions, besides threatening her
family members in Malaysia when she insisted that he marry her.
However, Mr Manikandan denied all the charges levelled against
him by the woman.
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