Bhubaneswar, Sept. 19: Champua's Independent legislator Sanatan Mahakud failed to turn up before the Mahila police station here, four days after cops issued a notice asking him to appear before the investigating agency.

The notice was issued in connection with a case filed by Kavita Mahakud, who had claimed to be his daughter-in-law. However, the legislator failed to turn up at the time of filing this report.

Kavita had alleged that she had been subjected to mental and physical abuse besides being intimidated by the legislator and his relatives. Based on the complaint, the Mahila police station in Bhubaneswar had registered a case against Sanatan and his son-in-law Dinabandhu under sections 498 A (husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty), 341 (wrongful restraint), 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation) and 34 (crime done by more than one person) of the Indian Penal Code. The case was registered in March this year.

Deputy commissioner of police Satyabrata Bhoi said: "If he does not appear today, we would give him another week's time to appear before us."

Mahakud, who had earlier contested the 2009 elections on a Congress ticket, quit the party and contested the Assembly elections in 2014 as an Independent candidate.

Mahakud shot into the limelight ahead of the elections after he declared assets worth Rs 69 crore in his affidavit. In July last year, the Enforcement Directorate conducted raids at 15 places, including his residence in Keonjhar district, in connection with an alleged mining scam.

Kavita had alleged Mahakud's son Pankaj had married her in March 2014 and the legislator had forced his son to stay away from her.

"Sanatan and his son-in-law Dinabandhu have been threatening me with dire consequences. In February, when I visited the State Commission for Women to lodge a complaint, Sanatan and Dinabandhu threatened to kill me," Kavita said.

Kavita had also produced photographs of her with Pankaj to substantiate her claims.

However, the legislator and his son have vehemently denied the claims made by Kavita that they had been married.

"My daughter-in-law is in my home and I don't know of any other woman who is claiming to be my daughter-in-law. I don't know who filed the case as my daughter-in-law is in my house," the 57-year-old legislator had claimed.

Earlier this year, the district administration reclaimed a five-acre government plot at Uchabali mouza in Barbil tehsil that had been illegally occupied by the MLA for about two decades.