By Our Correspondent
CUTTACK/BHUBANESWAR: With his legal battle going on against his estranged actress wife, Varsha Priyadarshini, Kendrapada BJD Lok Sabha MP Anubhav Mohanty on Thursday was granted an additional month’s time to respond in an affidavit to the notice issued to him by the SDJM Court here.
The court taking cognisance of a domestic violence suit filed by his estranged wife Varsha Priyadarshini had issued the notice to the MP last month.Mohanty sought some more time to file his counters. SDJM Biswajit Nayak fixed December 18 for the next hearing.
Varsha has filed the domestic violence case against Anubhav levelling allegations of physical and mental torture and violence, including financial treachery. She has also filed a police complaint that attempts are being made to throw her out of her husband’s house here.
Varsha Priyadarshini, who had married Mohanty in 2014, has filed a case seeking maintenance from her estranged husband in a Sub Divisional Judicial Magistrate court in Cuttack. She has also filed a case against Mohanty under the Protection Of Women From Domestic Violence (DV) Act.
Earlier, MP Mohanty’s mother , Madhusmita Mohanty, had filed an FIR against her Elder-Daughter-Law , Varsha Priyadarshini at Purighat Police Station after the actress refused to vacate her in-laws Nandi Sahi House in Cuttack in view of repair and reconstruction of the 60 years old house
