After six months of lodging a compliant of dowry torture against her husband and other four members of in-laws, Barsa Swony Choudhary has filed a case of maintenance in the Family Court of Baleswar, seeking an amount to the tune of Rs 60,000 per month from her husband Rajashree Mohanty, son of former Minister and senior BJD leader Raghunath Mohanty.
She in a petition through her advocate stated that income of her husband was more than Rs 1.6 lakh per month, which includes his salary from a private company, landed property, agriculture source and a hotel etc.
While she is studying in MBA in a private college at Bhubaneswar, she needs the amount for her higher studies as well as self maintenance, she claimed.
It may be noted here that a case was registered under Section 498(A), 506, 448 and 34 of IPC and 4 DP Act, on the compliant of Barsa by the Town Police station on March 14 last against the family members which included husband Rajashree Mohanty, father-in-law Raghunath Mohanty, mother-in-law Pritilata Mohanty, sister-in-law Rupashree Madhual and bother-in-law Dr Suvendu Madhual, a paediatrician.
The case, subsequently, was transferred to HRPC. Three members were arrested from different places including Rajashree from Choudwar, Raghunath and his wife Pritilata from Kolkata after several days of hide and seek. However, the other two, Dr Madhual and his wife Rupashree had managed to get anticipatory bails.
The HRPC team also seized some of the dowry articles from the house Mohanty at Amarda Road. The dowry torture case is pending in the court of SDJM.
Barsa had alleged in her FIR that she was not given adequate food and other facilities during her stay in the in-laws house.
She had alleged that she was mentally and physically tortured by all members mostly by her husband and mother -in-law. Subsequently, the in-laws placed fresh demands for Rs 25 lakh and a Mahindra- make SUV from her parents, she had charged.
Amarballav Nanda, Barsa’s advocate said, “The demand amount for maintenance was made basing on the salary which Rajashree showed during move of his bail petition and taking account of his other assets and incomes.”