kolkata calcutta high court on thursday fined filmstar swastika mukherjee rs 8500 for unleashing her pet dog on a high court employee when he went to her house to serve a summonsnot only that justice maharaj sinha rejected her application seeking to take defence in a damage suit pending before the court against her the court observed that the application was not made truthfully mukherjee was directed to pay the fine by november 11swastika was married in 1998 to pramit sen younger son of rabindrasangeet exponent the late sagar sen anwesa the couples daughter was born in 2000 in june that year swastika left her inlaws house and lodged a complaint against her husband and his elder brothers pritam and priyam with jadavpur police under section 498a ipcthe sen brothers were discharged of allegations of physical and mental torture against swastika by an alipore court in 2005pritam then moved a damage suit in the high court against swastika demanding rs 77 crore he complained that he was a reputable businessman and his reputation and social status had been severely damaged by the false case against him by swastikaduring the hearing of the suit swastika neither appeared before the court nor fielded any lawyer in spite of the courts summons only this year she moved an application before the court stating that neither had she received any summons from the court nor had any process server of the high court gone to her place she sought to defend herself in the suitthe court then made investigations into swastikas statement in the course of investigations calcutta high court process server chunilal sardar who was to have gone to swastikas home was summoned by the court pritams lawyer krishendu gooptu examined himon examination sardar deposed that he had gone to serve the courts summons to swastikas house but she had refused to receive it then when he pasted the notice on the wall of her house after her refusal she unleashed her pet dog on him he was forced to fleethe court then fined swastika for her false statement made before the court holding that she relied upon hypertenchnicalitythe matter will come up for hearing again on november 12