New Delhi, August 9: A DELHI court today summoned a woman for aborting her own child, on a complaint by her husband with whom she has a marital discord.

Summoning Sushmita Sarkar, her father Pritisaran Bag, her mother, and sister Sangeeta Bag to appear in court on December 22, later this year, Metropolitan Magistrate Pritam Singh observed, “There are sufficient materials on record to summon the accused for the offences under Sections 312 (causing miscarriage), 506 (criminal intimidation), 406(criminal breach of trust), 384 (extortion) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy).”

In a complaint filed through his counsel Mahesh Tiwari, Sushmita’s husband Swaroop Sarkar has accused her of marrying him only for extorting money and of causing miscarriage of their unborn baby.

According to the complaint, Sarkar, a resident of Sarita Vihar in south Delhi and a textile technology engineer by qualification, married Sushmita in July, 2002 meeting her through an Internet matrimonial service.

Right from the beginning, Sushmita had been taunting him for his meagre earnings and not being able to meet her requirements and her parents started demanding money, Sarkar alleged.

Sarkar complained that Sushmita’s father being a well-known lawyer in Kolkata had threatened to get him ‘eliminated’ in Delhi, “as he has connection with the underworld, or get him implicated in a false case, if he does not give them Rs 20 lakh.”