"We first met when I was working a driver for the company where she worked initially," said David.
"For two whole years, we chatted as friends when I picked her up and dropped her home each night. I had developed feelings for her but did not tell her because I was only a driver while she was a software professional with a high-paying job."
However, Vijaylakshmi too harboured similar feelings. One night, when he dropped her home, she confessed to him that she loved him. A year of courtship followed.
"I would take her in my car and she would sit in the rear seat like a passenger. We never even held hands," says David. In 2004, the couple decided to tell their parents but Vijaylakshmi's family objected strongly to their marriage. In June 2005, the couple eloped, fleeing to Mumbai by train.
"The night we eloped, I tied a thali around her neck. We registered our marriage in a court in Mumbai on June 8, 2005," says David. Meanwhile, David's brother was arrested as Vijaylakshmi's family filed a complaint with the police saying she had been adbucted.
"My wife had to write to the Teynampet police station declaring that she had come with me of her own will," says David. "My brother was released but her father and two policemen followed us to Mumbai.
But Vijaylakshmi refused to go back. The local policemen there dissuaded them from forcing her and her father left."
Today, David, Vijaylakshmi and their four-year-old son live in Chennai after Vijaylakshmi obtained a transfer from the bank where she works. David now owns three cars that he hires out.
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