Helpless Chennai mom cries for baby in Malaysia
Techie-hubby takes away newborn despite court order, deserts wife.
Chennai: A 24-year-old woman of Sivagangai, married to a Malaysian techie, is
stranded on foreign soil, after her husband’s family took her daughter from her besides throwing her out of the house.
Rights activists cry foul over the spike in the recent past of youths relocated to Malaysia marrying girls from Tamil Nadu for a lucrative dowry and dumping them later citing wayward reasons to get married again for dowry.
Valli Kannu, an M.B.A graduate, got married to P. Palaniappan alias Sokkalingam (32), a Malaysian citizen, working in a data mining firm in Kuala Lumpur, three years ago with dowry.
Palaniappan insisted Valli to leave him since she gave birth to the child in Madurai at the behest of his father also Palaniappan and mother Rukmani.
However, Valli’s father did what he could do to patch up and sent his daughter with the newborn back to Malaysia.
Palaniappan’s family deliberately sat on renewing Valli’s visa until it got expired. As Valli sensed trouble and went to extend her visa on July 29, the family disappeared with the child and its belongings. She was also forced to leave. Valli who lodged a complaint with Malaysian authorities could not do much.
She later approached the court which ruled in her favour awarding custody of the child to her. In the meantime, her husband’s family went underground and Palaniappan refused to accept the court order.
“All I want is my daughter back. I haven’t seen her for about a month and she is still on mother’s milk. I would rush back to Madurai as soon as I get my child,” Valli told DC over phone from Malaysia.
The lone woman, who is fighting in Malaysia, has only a week’s stay left in the extended visa for her to get the child back. She is hoping she would be able to get the visa extended by a month. T. Kamalanathan, a rights activist based in Malaysia, said he had seen at least a dozen cases in the recent past of gullible families getting hoodwinked by advertisements of Malaysian grooms, Malaysian way of life, and a vicious cycle.