Woman refugee in Mandapam camp ends fast after three days

The trio withdrew the fast on Monday evening after persuasion by officials and an advocate deputed by MDMK leader Vaiko. Sathyakala, who allegedly fled from the island nation to escape a jail term in a criminal case, and her husband Kadhirvel Dayabaran were arrested along with their children in Dhanushkodi near here where they arrived in 2014. 

After interrogation by the Q Branch Police and the Intelligence Bureau sleuths she and the children were lodged at the Mandapam camp, where people with suspicious background and former militants, are housed while Dayabaran was sent to refugee camp in Tiruchy. 

Since then she had been demanding that they be united with her husband. 

Sathyakala had alleged that the living conditions in the Mandapam special refugee camp were horrible. The room where they stayed was like a dungeon without air and light.