Even as the police are yet to make much headway in the dowry torture case involving ex-Minister Raghunath Mohanty and his family members, another FIR was filed by a woman here with similar allegation against her in-laws at the Town police station on Friday.
Santosini Mallick (31), besides mentioning name of husband Nandakishor Mallick for inflicting torture on her for dowry in the complaint, included the names of her brother-in- law, who is also Additional Director General of Police (ADGP), State Human Rights Cell, Gopabandhu Mallick, sister –in-law Bhabani Mallick, father –in –law Purnachandra Mallick and another brother –in- law Akshay Mallick as having aided and abetted the crime.
Santosini alleged that she was tortured physically and mentally and driven out from home after her parents failed to meet a fresh demand for dowry worth Rs 80,000 in June, 2010 by her in-laws.
The complainant said she had married in 2001 and has two daughters, one being of 11 years and the other of nine years. She also alleged that her in-laws didn’t give her the children, while she was cast off by them. When she filed a maintenance case against her husband in the Family Court of Baleswar, the latter again married another girl.
All the members she mentioned in the FIR are party to her ordeals, she alleged. She charged that when she had failed to get justice from every institution, including the State Women Commission, lastly, she brought the matter to the notice of SP Amrita Dash and later lodged an FIR in the town police station against her in-laws.
The victim, a native of Mansing Bazar of the town, married Nandakishor, an advocate, a native of Saudi under Singla police station. However, they were residing in the Kalidaspur on the outskirts of thetown.
“We have registered a case under the appropriate sections of the IPC against the husband and others on the basis of the complainant’s FIR and
transferred the case to Sahadevkhunta police station since the area comes under its jurisdiction. Further, the investigation would reveal who are involved,” informed town police station IIC Umesh Garnaik. Gopabandhu Mallick in his reaction said he would cooperate in the investigation into the case.