By Our Correspondent
CUTTACK/BHUBANESWAR: Kendrapada MP Anubhav Mohanty on Friday refused to join a mediation process offered to him by a court here to resume the marital relationship with his estranged actress-wife Varsha Priyadarshini.
Instead, the BJD MP Mohanty said he has confidence on the judiciary and his divorce suit is now pending in a New Delhi court. Mohanty appeared before the SDJM Court, which has taken cognisance of a domestic violence suit filed by Varsha. As directed, Anubhav also submitted an affidavit detailing his response to the case. “I made my statements in the court and requested the court to punish the guilty and spare the innocent,” he told reporters.
Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate (SDJM) Court in Cuttack had served a notice to Anubhav Mohanty for his reply in connection with the domestic violence case. Varsha had filed a case under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act at the SDJM Court in Cuttack on August 7 accusing husband Anubhav of physical and mental torture. A month before the case, he had filed a petition in the Patiala House Court seeking divorce from her on July 6, 2020. The marital discord between Ollywood’s power couple came to fore later in September.
The court in Delhi issued a notice to Varsha asking her to depose before it on December 10 in connection with the divorce case.However, the Supreme Court of India on October 16 stayed the divorce petition after Varsha moved to the apex court seeking transfer of the case from Delhi to the Family Court in Cuttack. The court asked the counsels of both the parties to sort out the matter through discussion.
