Mukherjee Samarth family Puns

Swastika marries her husband Promit Sen in 1998. Promit was the son of Rabindra Sangeet singer, late Sagar Sen. A daughter was born to the couple in 2000 and the woman left her in-laws’ home the same year. Subsequently she filed 498A against her husband as well as brother-in-laws Pritam and Priyam.

Both brothers were acquitted from charges of physical and mental torture by an Alipore court in 2005. Later, Pritam filed a damage suit of Rs 7.7 crores (USD 1mn approx) against Mukherjee for filing false charges and falsely implicating and publicly maligning their image. All through the court hearings, Pritam had also suffered a huge financial loss.

During this trial, Swastika failed to appear in court and later her counsel told the judge how she was not submitted any copy. On other hand, when the process counsel had gone to her home to hand over the copy, she refused to take the same and also unleashed her dog on him. The court agreed that the woman’s defence was not made truthfully and rejected the same, directing the case to be heard ex-parté.

Swastika had then rendered an unconditional apology then for contempt of court.

2007
The trial court directed Swastika to pay the amount to Pritam in 2007 and she moved the high court against the verdict.

2009
Later in April 2009, as reported by The Telegraph, a Calcutta High Court division bench comprising of Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghosh and Justice S.P. Mitra upheld the trial court’s order that actress Swastika Mukherjee would go “undefended” in the Rs 7.7-crore damages suit filed by her brother-in-law Pritam Sen.

However, Swastika was not ready to give up. The actress then told the media, "We had filed an appeal against the case and it has been rejected. It doesn’t mean the final verdict is out. I can’t comment further because we are yet to receive a copy of the court order and the matter is sub judice."

The damages suit had been dragging on in the trial court since 2005 after Pritam was discharged from the false 498A case. On the basis of the bailiff’s report, the high court issued an arrest warrant against Swastika in January that year, which prompted the actress to turn up in court, apologise and also pay a fine of Rs 8,500.

Swastika then appealed to the division bench against Justice Sinha’s order, which was dismissed as well.