Sweta Mishra with her husband

Bhubaneswar, Sept. 3: Former film actress Sweta Mishra has said she would approach the State Commission for Women if police failed to arrest her husband and in-laws, whom she has accused of dowry torture.

“We have been waiting for the police to arrest all the accused. I will go to any length to get justice,” said Sweta.

The 27-year-old, who has featured in a number of Odia movies and holds an MBA degree, said her in-laws did not allow her to take campus selection exams. She completed her degree in MBA (human resources) from a private institute in 2012.

Sweta also alleged that her husband and in-laws were opposed to her acting in movies.

“Before marriage, her mother-in-law used to appreciate her singing. But later, they discouraged her saying singing was cheap,” said Sweta’s father Gyana Ranjan Mishra, who works in a bank.

Sources said that Sweta, apart from acting, has a number of Odia and Bengali songs to her credit. She even bagged the best playback singer (female) award at the state film awards ceremony held in 2004 for the film Suna Sankhali.

Sweta, who married Siddharth Siladitya Padhi in June last year, also alleged that she had been receiving threat calls from unknown people.

“They have an eye on my father’s property. That is why they were torturing me,” she said.

On July 12, Sweta lodged a complaint against her husband Siddharth Siladitya Padhi, father-in-law Pradip Padhi, a retired engineer, mother-in-law Jayashree Padhi and sister-in-law Puja Padhi at the Mahila police station.

Siddharth is now at Zurich in Switzerland pursing a PhD.