A 19-year-old woman, Tapaswini Pradhan, has filed an FIR at the Dhauli police station alleging that her husband abandoned her and her six-month-old son after torturing her for dowry.
She also sought justice as she and her son are leading miserable life without food and shelter without support of her husband.
According to her complaint, Tapaswini, a resident of Ramgiri under Aska police limits in Ganjam district, had married one Pitambar Yadav of Gorahat under Goda district in Jharkhand in 2016 and she gave birth to a son child on March 24, 2018. The couple was staying at Nuagaon under Dhauli police station. After marriage, Pitambar demanded Rs 1 lakh dowry and started torturing her. Her parents didn’t give the dowry as she had a love marriage with Pitambar.
In April 2018, Pitambar went to Jharkhand and is yet to return. Whenever she talked to Pitambar, he told her that he has married another girl and threatened to kill her through hired goons, if she make phone calls further.
Earlier, she had approached ‘Madhyama’, on the advice of the Dhauli IIC, for a solution but the latter failed to do so. On the advice of ‘Madhyama’, she filed the FIR on September 28, 2018.
However, Tapaswini has not received a copy of her FIR yet.In this regard, lawyer Kabiraj Sahoo said the IIC on October 3 told him that he was out of station and would certainly register a case against Pitambar on his return within two days.
Stating that Tapaswini is facing troubles in getting food and medicine for her and her child, Sahoo has demanded that the IIC register a case and give justice to her at the earliest.