Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, Mar 21: Actress Chaitra has filed a complaint in Basavanagudi women's police station in the city against her husband, Potaraj, accusing him of inflicting physical torture on her and curtailing her freedom.

Chaitra has acted in a few films including Kannada movie, 'Khushi'. After falling in love with Potaraj, who had introduced himself as a businessman dealing in liquor and real estate after meeting her in a party, she had married him on December 15, 2006.The couple has two children.

In the said complaint, Chaitra says that she had deserted her husband and presently living with her parents on account of family disputes. Personnel of Basavanagudi women's police station, who have registered criminal case of physical torture and family atrocity against Potaraj, are learnt to be taking measures to arrest him.

In the complaint, Chitra says that she had married Potaraj in Chamundeshwari Studio at Mysuru in 2006. "After our marriage, my husband used to routinely beat me up and hurl abuses at me. I also was meted out harassment for even minor things. This problem continued till I delivered the second child after which I have not been having physical relationship with my husband. He used to send gunman with me whenever I wanted to go out including my visits to parental home. Even when I sought money to meet household expenses, he behaved with me inhumanly," she explained.

Chaitra says that her husband had imposed the condition that she should not act in films after marriage. Hence, she narrated, she stopped acting and produced television series with the assistance of her people in her parental home, duly claiming that profit from this activity was also collected by her husband. "He continued to quarrel for even petty things and attack me. When we were travelling together in a car, there was a fight between us, when he hit my head against the window of the car, as a result of which my skull was injured for which I was treated in a hospital," she has narrated.

The actor said that blood began to ooze out of her mouth and nose after her husband held her by her hair and banged her against the wall in connection with a small dispute on March 14, 2018. Her left eye was also injured. She said that with the specific purpose of murdering her, he had held by her neck tightly and hit her in her abdomen region. "I fell unconscious but he left home without trying to even provide me treatment," she stated.

Chaitra has accused her husband of having relationship with a girl named Amoolya and that he wants to get rid of her by inflicting mental and physical abuse because of this relationship. She says that currently she lives in her parental home, and has urged the police to take action against Potaraj.

The police, who registered criminal case, went to take Potaraj into custody but they could not do so as he had locked the house, went away, and switched off his cellphone, it is learnt.