Maligned' lady yoga teacher goes to Madras High Court

Madurai: A 30-year-old woman vengefully booked under the Immoral Trafficking Prevention Act by police due to personal enmity and subsequently absolved by  court,  has now sought a compensation of Rs 1 crore from government.

The yoga teacher from Kanyakumari district, feels aggrieved because local newspapers carried a false news attributing to police when she was charged under the Act in April 2010.

She was ostracised by her own family, including her parents, which forced her to move to USA where she worked as yoga teacher for the last few years. Narrating the case background, advocate R. Lajapathi Roy said the teacher and her family members had leased a house belonging to a constable at her native place in 2009.

Even after she paid an advance of Rs 1 lakh, the constable collected an additional Rs 25,000 and four sovereign of gold jewellery from the family members promising to repair the damaged portion,  but he failed to do it, the advocate said.

When the teacher asked him to pay back the money, he picked a quarrel with her.

In the meantime, the constable’s son also took away Rs 5,980 from her house.
When she reported this incident to his school headmaster, the policeman’s family members, including the boy’s grandfather quarrelled with the yoga teacher,  said  Roy.

In the meantime,  the constable’s father died due to liver failure. But the constable came to the wrong conclusion that the death was because  she scolded him, said advocate I. Pinaygash. As a revenge, the constable along with the other police officials foisted a case against the teacher.

However, investigation conducted by the DSP, district crime branch, Nagercoil,  proved that she was wrongly implicated in the case, he said.

Based on the investigation report, the court quashed the criminal case booked  against the teacher in June last year. The court has directed the government to file its response.