Junior NTR’s ‘junior’ wife

The grandson of former Andhra Pradesh CM, late N T Rama Rao – Junior NTR (one of Tollywood’s leading heroes), landed in a legal controversy following his family’s decision to get him married to a Std XII student.0


Singuluri Santhi Prasad, a lawyer from Vijayawada, filed a suit in the Krishna district legal services authority contending that the girl is only 17 and the families are violating the Child Marriage Restraint Act.

Junior NTR, 27, is to get engaged to N Lakshmi Pranathi, daughter of a real estate businessman Narne Srinivas Rao, in March and the couple are to be married in May. The bride’s mother is the niece of former CM and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) president N Chandrababu Naidu. Naidu is believed to have played a crucial role in fixing the alliance.

Prasad filed a suit after learning that the girl is only 17. The legal age for marriage is 18. He sought a direction that the marriage be performed only after the girl is 18.

Family sources revealed that Pranathi would be 18 by May. Besides his real estate business, her father is the chairman of a local news channel.