The order, whose copy TNM has accessed, tells the channel to air an apology before playing the episode for six consecutive days from September 23 to 28. Upon reviewing the episodes, BCCC has confirmed that the episodes have violated several rules laid down by the regulatory body and ordered the channel to pay a fine of Rs 2.5 lakh. In a later episode, aired on June 28, another character called Raja helps Roja exact revenge on the rapists by hacking some of them, and setting the others’ genitals on fire. He says the same to the two other henchmen later. His henchman then walks up to him, and Selvam tells him, “Go, go! Enjoy!” – giving him his blessings to rape the victim. He then drags her into the bushes and rapes her, and walks out without his shirt. “I listened to everything you said and imbibed it in my mind – did you think that was for your sister? All that you described is going to happen to you,” the character Selvam tells Roja. The leader of the gang then decides to gangrape Roja herself in order to ‘teach her a lesson’.
However much she wails, there should be no pity, kindness or mercy. You should not think that we are doing this to Roja Madam's sister, she who has paid us. When you rape her, there should be no mercy or pity in your heart. The girl you are going to rape is unmarried, a virgin. In one dialogue, she says, “Listen carefully. In a tasteless, long sequence, the character, Roja, instructs the men to be ruthless.
The mega serial on May 14 and 15 this year aired a sequence where a female antagonist hires four men to gangrape her own sister. Kalyana Veedu airs on Sun TV from Monday to Saturday on a prime time slot – 7.30 pm.