Milli alias Subhashree Panda, wife of Maoist leader Sabyasachi Panda, has said she would remain present in the court as a lawyer to defend her husband’s case and assist his senior lawyer Deepak Pattnaik.
Recently, Milli graduated from the Ganjam law College under the Berhampur University this year.
She had signed the Vakalatnama filed in the Additional District Judge-II Court on Wednesday in connection with the case. She told the media that she would assist Pattnaik, who is fighting Sabyasachi’s cases.
Talking to reporters here, Milli said she would continue to defend the cases of poor, dalits, adivasis and neglected persons of society in the court. “I feel proud to be a lawyer and to defend the case of my husband on the first day of my legal practice in the court,” she added.
In a significant move, Sabyasachi’s senior lawyer Deepak Kumar Pattnaik filed a petition in the ADJ (2) Court here on Wednesday against a police officer for allegedly misbehaving and threatening Sabyasachi while he was in jail.
Sabyasachi, who was arrested by the Brahmapur Police on July 18 last year, has been acquitted in two cases out of more than 70 cases pending against him in different police stations of the State.