By Our Correspondent
BHUBANESWAR/CUTTACK: Any possible reconciliation between Actor turned BJD Lok Sabha MP, from Kendrapara Parliamentary seat, Anubhav Mohanty with his estranged actress wife, Varsha Priyadarshini, looks grim with the ruling party lawmaker continued to skip counselling despite several efforts made through various legal processes.
MP Mohanty has been alleging his actress wife Varsha Priyadarshini and 2 of her elder sisters like Bananee Sahu and Debjani Sahu Gouda hatching conspiracy against him to damage his political career.
Sources said after skipping the January 22 counselling, the BJD MP once again on February 23 did the same making clear about his intension for separation or divorce with his actress wife Varsha Priyadarshini. Both MP Mohanty and his wife Varsha were at loggerheads since past few years and their married life turned ugly with both knocking the doors of Courts in Cuttack and Delhi.
Varsha had filed a domestic violence case against MP Mohanty at the Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate (SDJM) Court in Cuttack. Sources said, even tough Varsha and her lawyer turned for counselling on both dates and had also present at the mediation centre but MO Mohanty did not turned up.The Court fixed next counselling on April 16.
The SDJM Court had appointed lawyer Smitaranjan Patnaik as the counsellor or mediator to resolve the case through counselling. A report will be submitted before the court after recording statement of both Anubhav and Varsha in the case.
Varsha had filed a case under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act at the SDJM Court on August 7, 2020, accusing Anubhav of torturing her physically and mentally.
A month before the case, the Kendrapara MP had filed a petition in the Patiala House Court seeking divorce from her on July 6, 2020.However, the Supreme Court of India on October 16, 2020, stayed the divorce petition after Varsha moved to the apex court seeking transfer of the case from Delhi to the Family Court in Cuttack.
