Cuttack, June 1: Swetabala Nayak, 55, the wife of Dasarathi Nayak, the accused in an alleged dowry case, has filed a habeas corpus petition before Orissa High Court, seeking an order to produce her husband before the court as she suspects he has been killed.

The petitioner has alleged that the whereabouts of her husband are not known since the inspector in charge of Jagatsinghpur police station Sanjeev Kumar Mohanty took him away on the night of May 29 and kept him confined, despite the high court granting him bail.

She has expressed apprehensions of “danger to his life” in her petition filed yesterday. Moreover, she has also filed a separate petition, alleging contempt of court.

“The petitions are expected to be heard by the vacation bench next week,” petitioner’s counsel Khirod Rout said.

She said a case of alleged torture for dowry was registered at Jagatsinghpur police station on the basis of a complaint by her daughter-in-law. But she, along with her husband, son and daughter, were granted bail by the court on April 22.

She and her husband, son and daughter had surrendered at Jagatsinghpur police station and when they produced a certified copy of the high court order, a sub-inspector accepted the bail bond with sureties and released them, the petition claimed.

But on May 29, the inspector in charge of the Jagatsinghpur police station, along with six or seven unidentified persons, turned up at their house around 9pm and forcibly took her husband away in a police vehicle and “have kept him confined and his whereabouts are not known”, she alleged.