Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, Feb 10: IPS officers Arun Rangarajan and Ilakkiya Rangarajan are not in good terms. This was revealed in generous measures when Arun chose to sit in dharna in front of his wife's residence here on Sunday, February 9. Arun's complaint was that his wife was not allowing him to visit his daughter.

Arun Rangarajan is the superintendent of police (internal security department) at Kalaburagi. His wife Ilakkiya, is the deputy commissioner of police for VVIP security here. The two had fallen in love and married, and have a daughter.

Arun Rangarajan


Ilakkiya Rangarajan

The two had separated on account of family quarrels and also had obtained divorce through court. But they had begun to stay together after elders in the family negotiated with them. But the two appear to be in loggerheads again.

Arun had been transferred to Kalaburagi a few months back. Sunday being holiday, he had arrived at the residence of Ilakkiya at Vasanth Nagar to see his daughter. But his wife had shut the door and not allowed him inside. An angry Arun sat on the footpath in front of the house in dharna.

He said that his wife has been harassing him regularly and she is not allowing him to meet his daughter. He claimed that his transfer was affected at his wife's behest and that she got it done through higher officers. He said that he feels insulted at not being allowed to enter the house. "We fell in love when working in Chhattisgarh. My wife was not agreeable to work there and asked me to get transferred to Karnataka and also wrote to the government there. The fight over the transfer has come to this stage," he said.

High grounds policemen who reached the spot tried to convince Arun to stop agitating but Arun did not agree. He did not pay heed to their request to move from the spot. He said that he would go back only after meeting his daughter. But in spite of efforts made by the police, they could not contact Ilakkiya.