In an unprecedented incident, a man reportedly compelled his wife to spend a night with a film director so that he would get a break in the cine industry.
The matter came to the fore after the woman filed a complaint at the lingaraj police station here on Saturday in this regard. The accused was identified as Chandan of Baleswar district.
The woman alleged that her husband pressurisd her to spend a night with a film director for getting opportunity in an Odia film.
According to reports, the woman, a resident of Kalahandi district, had been working at a private company here since 2012.
During the period, she met Chandan and they fell in love with each other. They were of different castes. Without parents’ support, they married in 2013 by help of an social organisation. They were staying at a house on rent in Samantraipur area since then.
Meanwhile, Chandan told his spouse about his interest in taking part in films. He asked her to arrange Rs 1 lakh to get a role in a film.
When she expressed her inability, Chandan allegedly instigated her to spend a night with a film director to fulfil his dream.
When she resisted, Chandan forced her, who was pregnant then, to go for an abortion as he would divorce her. She alleged in the complaint that her husband was torturing her physically and mentally when she did not agree with him on his proposal.
Even, Chandan took her to a lawyer in Cuttack for a divorce. He abused her in her caste name and told her to forget her relationship with him in front of the lawyer, she alleged.