India, Feb. 27 -- Sankgeetha Sornalingam, wife of actor-politician and Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) founder Joseph Vijay Chandrasekar, has filed a petition seeking divorce at a jurisdictional family court in Chengalpattu district.

In her plea filed under the Special Marriage Act, 1954, Sankgeetha has accused her husband of maintaining an extra-marital relationship with an actress and subjecting her to persistent mental cruelty, neglect and desertion.

She stated that if required, she would implead the said actress as the second respondent in the case.

The petitioner has also sought that the proceedings be conducted in camera.

Without such restraint, she submitted, she and her family would be subjected to further humiliation and menta...