Threat to life: Wife of Martin

COIMBATORE: Jailed ‘Lottery King’ Santiago Martin’s wife Leema Rose petitioned the Coimbatore police commissioner T P Sundaramoorthy on Friday that her family members have been receiving death threats from several unknown person.Speaking to reporters after submitting the petition to the Comissioner of Police , she said all the cases registered against Martin and other family members were fabricated. “The next day after the court struck down his detention under the Goondas Act, the police registered fresh cases. He is repeatedly taken into custody by police from different parts of the state and in the name of the interrogation; he is not even allowed to have proper sleep. His health is fast deteriorating,” said Leema Rose.The daughter of the Martins, Daisy Martin, a final year student in a private college, said that some persons took us to Chennai in a car and told that all the cases against my father would be withdrawn if they pay a huge sum. “When we refused, they threatened us that more cases will be filed against my father and will never come out of the prison. They threatened that my father will be murdered in the prison itself,” said Daisy. Leema said she would reveal the names of persons who were trying to extort money from them if Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa granted an audience to her.