HC grants interim protection to Odisha industrialist, wife and son

Odisha Sun Times Bureau
Cuttack, Jul 4:

The Orissa High Court today granted interim protection to Odisha industrialist Trailokya Mishra, his son Sabyasachi Mishra and wife Asha Manjari against arrest by the police in connection with a dowry torture case filed by his daughter-in-law Lopamudra Mishra.

The High Court while conducting a hearing on the anticipatory bail petitions filed by the trio, granted them interim protection against arrest by the police in the dowry torture case till July 29.

The court has asked the police to submit the case diary before July 29.

Mishra had moved the High Court on June 15 seeking anticipatory bail for himself, his son Sabyasachi and wife Asha Manjari in the dowry torture case filed by his daughter-in-law Lopamudra-wife of Sabyasachi.

Their bail applications were filed by their counsel Siddheswar Mohanty in the High Court.

It is worthwhile to mention here that Lopamudra had lodged a complaint at the Mahila Police Station on May 10 this year vide case no. 117/2016 alleging to have been subjected to physical and mental torture for dowry by her husband and her in-laws.

Since no action was taken by the police even after a month of her lodging the complaint with the police she revealed her story of torture before the media.

Lopamudra even alleged that her husband had proposed to her for wife-swapping when they were on a visit to Port Blair. The estranged couple had got married in 2006.

Lopamudra on June 26 lodged a complaint at the Badagada police station that she has been receiving threats to her life on Facebook and WhatsApp.

Earlier, she had lodged a complaint with the same police station on June 15 that some unidentified youths on June 14 night had barged into the Tankapani Road residence of her parents where she is currently residing and had threatened to kill her and kidnap her son.

Since the Mishras remained untraceable the Commissionerate police issued ‘lookout’ against them in on June 27.

Apprehending that they are planning to flee abroad the Commissionerate police issued ‘lookout circular’ to all airports in the country with directions to put it up at international airports.

Notably, the Twin City Commissionerate Police on June 17 had pasted a notice at the house of Trailokyanath Mishra asking him, his son Sabyasachi Mishra and wife Asha Manjari to appear at the Mahila police station on or before June 22 to record their statements in connection with the dowry torture case lodged by his daughter-in-law Lopamudra.

Commissionerate Police had claimed that despite best of its efforts it could not contact them nor could ascertain their whereabouts and had to paste the notice at Plot No. 191, Unit III (Trailokya Mishra’s residence) under Kharavela Nagar police limits asking them to appear at the Mahila police station here and record their statements. Police had said the notice was part of the process of its investigations