Sankaran Nairs grand-nephew (niece Ammukutty Amma's son) was K. K. Chettur, an ICS officer who also served as India's first ambassador to Japan. He was the father of Jaya Jaitly, a politician and socialist, whose husband Ashok Jaitly was chief secretary of Jammu and Kashmir. Jaya later had a live in relationship with the Socialist leader and Uninon Minister George Fernandes, which led to a feud between her and Frenandes' legal wife Leila Kabir, at the time of his death. Jaya's daughter Aditi is married to the former cricketer Ajay Jadeja.