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Updated - November 11, 2026 12:42 am IST - CHENNAI
The petitioner claimed no summons, warrant, court order, Look Out Circular or any such document was provided to her. | Photo Credit: FILE PHOTO
Archana Veeramani, 49, the daughter of R. Veeramani, being investigated as the main accused in a series of child sexual abuse cases, approached the Madras High Court with a plea to order an investigation into the human rights violations allegedly perpetrated against her by the State police and also to quash the summons issued after forcibly making her deboard a Singapore-bound airplane on October 23, 2026.
Justice V. Lakshminarayanan is expected to hear her plea on Wednesday (November 11, 2026). The High Court Registry had numbered her writ petition (criminal) subject to maintainability. In her affidavit, Ms. Veeramani said, her father had been arrayed as the prime accused in a case booked by the police under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act of 2012 and other laws.
She was not an accused in that case at least as on October 23, 2026 and no court had restrained her from undertaking foreign travel. Therefore, she had booked a flight from Chennai to Singapore on that day to visit her son and help him take medical treatment for his ailments. After she had boarded the plane at around 2 p.m. on October 23, the airline staff forcefully deboarded her without assigning any reason, the petitioner alleged.
Claiming that no summons, warrant, court order, Look Out Circular or any such document was provided to her, the petitioner said that she was picked up by the police personnel from the immigration area and taken to the office of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the POCSO case against her father who was the founder of Gem Granites and a well-known businessman.
Since she was suffering from multiple sclerosis, a chronic autoimmune condition that affects the central nervous system, for about 20 years, the petitioner said that she collapsed on the floor of the SIT office at about 5 p.m. and lost control over her bladder. All these events were video recorded by the police despite objections and she was shifted to a hospital for treatment only on the advice of her doctor friend, the petitioner added.
It was only after deboarding her from the plane, picking her up forcibly from the airport and detaining her at the SIT office for hours together, the police chose to serve summons upon her at 9 p.m. on October 23, 2026 asking her to appear for an inquiry regarding the POCSO case on October 25, 2026, she said and urged the court to quash the summons besides ordering return of her seized laptop, mobile phone and luggage.
Published - November 11, 2026 12:41 am IST
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