The allegations levelled by Atul Subhash in his suicide be aware are baseless and Nikita Singhania, his estranged spouse, has all of the solutions, Nikita’s uncle Sushil Singhania has mentioned. Sushil Singhania is an accused within the abetment to suicide case registered by Atul’s brother in Bengaluru. Police have mentioned they’ve despatched a crew to Uttar Pradesh’s Jaunpur to query Nikita, her mom Nisha, brother Anurag and uncle Sushil.
In what’s the Singhanias’ first response to the large row triggered by Atul Subhash’s dying by suicide and his allegations of harassment in opposition to Nikita and her relations, 70-year-old Sushil Singhania mentioned, “I got here to know from media studies that I’ve been named within the FIR. But I’ve no reference to this. The (divorce) case proceedings have been on for the previous three years. Now immediately this has occurred. Our household just isn’t responsible. The court docket will ship its judgment.”
“Subhash’s allegations are baseless. Nikita just isn’t right here. Once she returns, she’s going to reply to all the things. She has a solution to each allegation they’ve made. I stay individually. I’m her uncle, however I haven’t got a lot details about the case. They have been dealing with it,” he mentioned.
This afternoon, a police crew reached the Singhanias’ dwelling in Jaunpur, creating an uproar within the space. A police officer mentioned they’d simply come to make sure the household’s safety. They denied any data of Bengaluru police coming to Jaunpur.
Atul Subhash, a 34-year-old techie, was discovered useless at his Bengaluru dwelling on Monday morning. A ‘justice is due’ placard and a 24-page suicide be aware was present in his room. The be aware accused Nikita and her relations of harassing him through the divorce case proceedings to make him pay large quantities as upkeep and alimony.
Atul’s brother Bikas Kumar has mentioned in his criticism to the police that Atul has detailed in his suicide be aware how he was being mentally and bodily harassed and extorted by the accused.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Whitefield, Shivakumar instructed information company ANI, “Atul Subhash dedicated suicide through the early hours of ninth of December. A criticism has been lodged on the Marathahalli police station in Bengaluru relating to this. Multiple instances had been operating in opposition to him in Uttar Pradesh. His spouse and her relations demanded cash from him to settle this subject and harassed him. For these causes, he died by suicide. Based on this criticism, we registered an FIR in opposition to the accused. An investigation is underway.”
In an 81-minute video he recorded earlier than dying by suicide, Atul Subhash mentioned he married in 2019 after discovering Nikita on a matchmaking web site. The couple had a son the following 12 months. He has alleged that his spouse’s household would repeatedly demand cash operating into a number of lakhs. When he refused to present more cash, his spouse left the Bengaluru dwelling with their son in 2021.
The subsequent 12 months, Atul wrote within the be aware, Nikita filed a case in opposition to him and his household underneath a number of sections, together with homicide and unnatural intercourse. She alleged that he demanded a dowry of Rs 10 lakh and this put stress on her father and he died of a coronary heart assault. “This is a few poor Bollywood plot. She has already confessed that her father was affected by long run sickness in her cross examination. Her father was getting handled from AIIMS for the final 10 years for coronary heart illness, diabetes and so on. Doctors gave him few months and therefore we received married shortly,” he has mentioned. This case, he mentioned, was subsequently withdrawn.
Atul has mentioned that his spouse and her household first demanded Rs 1 crore to settle the case, however later hiked this to Rs 3 crore. He has detailed a court docket change wherein he mentioned that when he instructed the decide that males are dying by suicide on account of false instances, his spouse replied, “Then why do not you?” At this, he mentioned, the decide laughed and requested her to go away the room. Atul has additionally alleged that the decide mentioned he “should take into consideration his household” and demanded Rs 5 lakh to “settle the case”.
The 34-year-old’s suicide be aware has robust remarks on the justice system, particularly its dealing with of marital disputes. Raging in opposition to the legislation coping with such instances, Atul wrote in his suicide be aware, “The extra I work arduous and grow to be higher at my work, the extra I and my household can be harassed and extorted and the entire authorized system will encourage and assist my harassers… Now, with me gone, there will not be any cash and there will not be any purpose to harass my previous mother and father and my brother. I could have destroyed my physique but it surely has saved all the things I consider in.”