NEW DELHI: The Supreme Courtroom on Tuesday denied the mom of Atul Subhash, Bengaluru techie who died by suicide in 2024, his minor son’s custody saying she was “stranger to the kid”. A bench of Justices Bela M Trivedi and N Kotiswar Singh stated the difficulty of the kid’s custody could possibly be raised earlier than the court docket conducting the trial.
“Sorry to say however the baby is a stranger to the petitioner. If you want, please go to the kid. In case you need the custody of the kid, there’s a separate process,” stated the bench. Subhash, 34, who was discovered hanging at his home in Bengaluru’s Munnekolalu on December 9, 2024, purportedly left behind prolonged messages, blaming his spouse and in-laws for taking the intense step.
The highest court docket was listening to a habeas corpus petition filed by Anju Devi, Subhash’s mom, looking for custody of her four-year-old grandson. Throughout the listening to, the highest court docket was knowledgeable by the counsel showing for Subhash’s estranged spouse Nikita Singhania that the kid was finding out at a boarding college in Haryana.
“We’ll take the kid to Bengaluru. We have now taken the boy out of faculty. The mom has to stay in Bengaluru to fulfil the bail situations,” submitted the counsel. Advocate Kumar Dushyant Singh, representing Devi, sought the kid’s custody and alleged her estranged daughter-in-law had stored kid’s location underneath wraps.
He argued a baby beneath six years of age shouldn’t be despatched to a boarding college and relied on images to indicate the petitioner interacting with the kid when he was solely a few years outdated. The apex court docket directed the kid to be produced in court docket on the subsequent listening to on January 20, and stated the case could not be selected the idea of a media trial.
A Bengaluru court docket on January four granted bail to Subhash’s estranged spouse, her mom Nisha Singhania and brother Anurag Singhania, within the suicide abetment case. Following his dying, an FIR was registered in Bengaluru towards Nikita and her household underneath Sections 108 (abetment of suicide) and three(5) (frequent intention) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.
