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Publication: Dinamalar
Date:
Nagalakshmi (35) wife of Pastor
Paul Murugesh (42) hanged herself unable to bear the torture and pressure
of her husband to get converted to Christianity. Paul Murugesh from
Samayanallur, running an orphanage, loved and married Nagalakshmi about
17 years ago. They have two sons. He has been torturing her on suspicion
of her morality. He has been pressurising her to convert to Christianity,
but she did not yield. When the pressure became unbearable, she hanged
herself. Acting on a complaint from her mother that only due to the
harassment by Paul Murugesh, she had committed suicide and that he was
responsible for the death of Nagalakshmi and that action should be taken
against him, Murugesh was arrested.
In another complaint filed by Maheswari,
her sister, she has alleged that he has forced her another elder widowed
sister with 4 children to convert to Christianity stating that her 4 children
will be admitted free into a hostel. He is engaged in such conversions
for which he gets lot of money from abroad. She has alleged how one
who has no education and no work could have such a lot of money and
that this should be investigated. He is now planning to leave
for Malaya with the photos as proof of the conversions made by him.
The complaint asks for confiscation of his passport.
In an earlier complaint by a social
worker that he is instigating communal problems, he was arrested and released
on bail.
Dinamalar. [CMC160204]
(Publish from Chennai)
