A suspended Reserve Police Constable and his mother and sister have been sentenced two years rigorous imprisonment and slapped with a fine of Rs 10,000 each by Bonei Assistant Sessions Judge on Thursday in a dowry torture case.
Sources said Sujata Mohanta, a resident of Bileipada under lahunipada police station of Sundargarh district, had developed love relationship with one Parameswar Mahanta in 2005, a reserve police constable and resident of Kapanda village under lahunipada police station. Sujata had married Parameswar the same year. Sujata and Parameswar were living together at Rourkela and both had been blessed with a son. But after that Parameswar had started torturing Sujata and was reluctant to live with Sujata. But with the intervention of friends and colleagues of Parameswar, the marital discord had been sorted out.
later, Parameswar had been transferred to Sundargarh. But suddenly, one day Parameswar left Sujata and her son at Sundargarh bus stand and disappeared from that place. Finding no other alternative, Sujata went to Parameswar’s Kapanda village to stay there. But Parameswar’s mother Fultuli and his sister Dhaneswari allegedly had beaten her severely and told her to leave the house immediately.
Sujata lodged complaint in lahunipada police station on December 25, 2006 against Parameswar and in-laws, including mother-in-law Fultuli Mahanta and sister-in-law Dhaneswari Mahanta. lahunipada police after registering a case , had arrested Parameswar, Fultuli and Dhaneswari and had forwarded them to court. They had been sent to jail. But after some days, they had come out of the jail on bail.
Hearing the judgment of this case, Bonei Assistant Sessions Judge Biswaranjan Behera examined as many as nine witnesses on Thursday and pronounced the sentence.