Cuttack, July 4: Industrialist and chairman of Nayagarh Sugar Mill Trailokya Mishra today got temporary reprieve from Orissa High Court, which it had approached for anticipatory bail after being named in a domestic violence and torture case registered on the basis of a complaint by his daughter-in-law Lopamudra.

The court granted 25-day protection from arrest to Mishra, his wife Ashamanjari and son Sabyasachi, who had also sought anticipatory bail in the case registered against them at Mahila police station in Bhubaneswar.

On the basis of Lopamudra's complaint, the police had registered a case under sections 498-A (husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 294 (obscene act), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 34 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code. The case is pending before the court of sub-divisional judicial magistrate, Bhubaneswar.

The anticipatory bail pleas were moved on the ground that the allegations had been "false" and made 10 years after marriage. Besides, no dowry related allegations were made.

"After a preliminary hearing, the single-judge bench of Justice S.K. Mishra ordered for production of the case diary on July 29 while granting Mishra, Ashamanjari and Sabyasachi interim protection till then," Mishra's counsel Sidheswar Mohanty said.

Lopamudra, 36, in her complaint, alleged that she was a victim of domestic violence perpetrated by her husband and in-laws since she married Sabyasachi on January 27, 2006.

She alleged that her husband had been torturing her for all these years, but her in-laws had remained silent. He never gave her money to spend and even ignored his son. Whenever she opposed him, he assaulted her, she alleged.

She also alleged that her husband had tried to force her to agree to wife-swapping during their honeymoon in the Andamans, and when she resisted, he beat her up. Whenever she complained to her father-in-law, he would tell her that such incidents were normal in wealthy families. Her in-laws have always supported her husband and his assaults on her. They also said nothing when he beat me up, Lopamudra alleged in her complaint.

The interim protection from the high court comes a week after the police issued a "lookout notice" against Mishra, his wife and son. Apprehending that they were planning to flee abroad, the police issued the lookout circular to all airports in the country with a direction to put it up in international airports.