Even as his actress-wife Varsha Priyadarshini has moved a court accusing him of domestic violence against her, actor and Kendrapada BJD MP Anubhav Mohanty has filed a divorce suit against her mainly on the ground that she never allowed him to have physical relationship with him ever since their marriage six years ago.Anubhav’s 47-page petition lodged at the Patiala House Court in Delhi alleges that Varsha’s refusal of a physical relation with him since the first of their wedlock has left feeling “unease and unhappy”.
Significantly, a month before Varsha moved the court accusing Anubhav of physical and mental torture, the latter had filed the divorce petition on July 6. The marital discord between Anubhav and Varsha came to the fore on Saturday after reports of the latter’s domestic violence case filed in the SDJM Court, Cuttack, on August 7.
In his comment, Anubhav had said he is yet to receive any notice in connection with his wife’s criminal case. Anubhav has stated in his petition that Varsha had asked him here to four months’ time for establishing conjugal relationship, to which he agreed respecting her decision.
The married life of the couple was not smoother even in Delhi when Anubhav went there after being elected to the Rajya Sabha before 2019.
His next attempt was after the couple returned to Cuttack, where Varsha seemed happy and assured him of getting on with a happy and healthy married life. But to Anubhav’s further disappointment, she sought more time. In the petition, Anubhav has further accused Varsha of not staying at her in-laws’ house and frequently going to her parents’ house. Her behaviour was also painful to the in-laws. She miserably failed to discharge her matrimonial obligations, thereby harassing and torturing him. Besides, he has alleged that Varsha made false allegations by linking him with his co-actresses.
She was always threatening him to drag him as well as his family to court in false criminal cases.Meanwhile, on Sunday, Anubhav issued a statement saying “personal space and privacy” of him and Varsha “must be respected”. He stated this after a copy of his divorce petition got leaked into the media.
Stating that it is one of the most painful and sad phases in his life, he further informed that his father has been unwell for the past few months.