<p>Odisha Assembly was on Saturday stalled over alleged involvement of an ex-minister and a senior IPS officer in separate dowry torture cases and frequent crimes against women with opposition Congress MLAs storming the well leading to repeated adjournments.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Though Question Hour was peaceful, Congress members raised the issue as soon as Zero Hour began. They stormed into the well and tried to climb the Speaker’s podium demanding a statement from chief minister Naveen Patnaik.<br /><br />The opposition MLAs, who had walked out of the assembly on Friday alleging protection to senior Biju Janata Dal leader Raghunath Mohanty, took up the issue again with a senior UPS officer in the rank of an additional director general of police being named in another FIR. Congress member S S Saluja demanded a statement from the CM on involvement of high profile persons in dowry torture cases.<br /><br />Giving details about the FIR against ADG Gopabandhu Mallick, working in Odisha Human Rights Commission, Saluja said the IPS officer’s sister-in-law had levelled dowry charges against him. Mallick was among the six accused persons in the FIR lodged by Santoshini Mallick, a mother of two daughters.</p>
<p>Odisha Assembly was on Saturday stalled over alleged involvement of an ex-minister and a senior IPS officer in separate dowry torture cases and frequent crimes against women with opposition Congress MLAs storming the well leading to repeated adjournments.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Though Question Hour was peaceful, Congress members raised the issue as soon as Zero Hour began. They stormed into the well and tried to climb the Speaker’s podium demanding a statement from chief minister Naveen Patnaik.<br /><br />The opposition MLAs, who had walked out of the assembly on Friday alleging protection to senior Biju Janata Dal leader Raghunath Mohanty, took up the issue again with a senior UPS officer in the rank of an additional director general of police being named in another FIR. Congress member S S Saluja demanded a statement from the CM on involvement of high profile persons in dowry torture cases.<br /><br />Giving details about the FIR against ADG Gopabandhu Mallick, working in Odisha Human Rights Commission, Saluja said the IPS officer’s sister-in-law had levelled dowry charges against him. Mallick was among the six accused persons in the FIR lodged by Santoshini Mallick, a mother of two daughters.</p>