Army Jawan Alleges Wife ‘Stripped Half-Naked' In Tamil Nadu; Annamalai Slams

After an Indian Army jawan posted a video on social media claiming that his wife was "stripped half-naked and brutally beaten" by a group of people in Tamil Nadu, TN BJP Chief K Annamalai said that he was ashamed that it happened in Tamil Nadu's soil.

"Had a telephonic conversation with the Havildar, who is bravely serving our country in Kashmir and his wife, based out of Tiruvannamalai. Truly gutted to hear her story & I felt ashamed that this had happened to her on our Tamil soil!," Annamalai said on Twitter.

The Controversy
The solider alleged that his wife was "stripped half-naked and brutally beaten" by a group of people in the Thiruvannamalai district of his state while he was on duty in Kashmir.

The solider identified Havaldar Prabhakaran posted a video on Twitter where he made the allegations against the action by the Tamil Nadu police.

"My wife is stripped half-naked and beaten very badly." In what world is this just? This is the pathetic condition of an army soldier on duty in Kashmir kneeling down to save his wife in Tamilnadu," he said in a video shared on Twitter. The clip was posted by Lt Col N Thiagarajan, an Army veteran.

He said that it is the "highest responsibility of the government" to take care of the spouse and family of a soldier when he is on duty. "The rise in such incidents in TN shows lawless condition.@NCWIndia please take appropriate action and save the dignity of the women," he added.

Prabhakaran also requested the Tamil Nadu cops to take immediate action against the miscreants.

However, the Thiruvannamalai SP Karthikeyan has termed the allegations as "exaggerated".

He told ANI: "Yesterday there was a video on social media, where an Indian soldier Prabhakaran put out allegations that his wife has been attacked, manhandled and assaulted by nearly 120 people. In our initial investigation, we have found out that it is an exaggerated allegation".

"We have provided security to the wife of the soldier. On behalf of the Thiruvannamalai district police, I request the public to not spread any rumours regarding this," the SP added.

The preliminary investigations have said that there is a dispute over a leashed shop on the property owned by Renugambal Temple. He said, "5 years ago a person called Kumar from Kunnathur Village, constructed a building and gave it for lease by getting Rs 9.50 lakhs with monthly rent of Rs 3000 to Selvamoorthy who is Kreethi's father and belongs to Padavodu Village. Meanwhile, last year the above Kumar died whereas his son Ramu asked Selvamoorthy to return the shop for which he said he would return the lease amount of Rs 9.50 lakhs. An understanding was also signed between Selvamoorthy and Ramu on February 10 that Selvamoorthy would vacate the shop. However, as per understanding Selvamoorthy didn't get the money back and refused to vacate the shop also."

He added, "Ramu on many occasions tried to compromise with Selvamoorthy which failed. Apparently, when Ramu and his family went to the shop yesterday morning around 10 am, Selvamoorthy hit Ramu on the head which led to heavy bleeding. After this, the locals have gone in support of Ramu and demanded that Selvamoorthy should immediately vacate the premises and all village people forcefully vacated the shop by throwing things from the shop outside."

The investigation claims that Keerthi and his mother were at the spot at the time of the incident. However, Keerthi was not attacked.