An unmarried woman staged a dharna in front of her lover’s house with their baby on Tuesday at Desi Behera Sahi in the Bada Bazaar area of Brahmapur.
The woman K Deepika said she had developed a relationship with one K Dinesh of the locality, two years ago. Later, he established physical relation with Deepika and impregnated her. Though Dinesh had promised the woman to marry her, he didn’t do so even after the birth of the baby boy, alleged Deepika, adding that his family members were asking her to stay away from him. She has filed a complaint in this regard with police and lodged a case in the Orissa High Court.
As Deepika came to know that Dinesh’s marriage was being fixed with another woman, she reached his house with their baby and staged a dharna the whole night demanding her marriage with him. On the other hand, family members of Dinesh lodged a complaint with the Bada Bazar police alleging that Deepika entered their house forcibly at night. Later, police reached the spot and provided protection to Deepika at the dharna spot.