Lakshmi Rai filed a case against weekly magazine Kumudam. The magazine was restrained from publishing news about her. Kumudam had published an interview of Lakshmi Rai stating, "Sharing a same room with a good friend is not a crime."
Lakshmi Rai denied such an interview and filed a case against Kumudham.

Justice R Sudhakar granted the injunction while passing interim orders on an application arising out of a civil suit from Lakshmi Rai, who had acted in Tamil films like Karka Kasadara, Mangathaa and Onbadhula Guru, praying for a direction to the weekly and its reporter to pay Rs 30 lakh towards damages for publishing articles in its issues dated February 27 and March 6 this year.