Atul Subhash labored as an Synthetic Intelligence (AI) skilled
Bengaluru:
The 34-year-old techie who died by suicide at his house in Bengaluru had been planning his demise for months and had ready an in depth guidelines of the whole lot he wanted to do within the days main as much as it, ticking off each job as soon as it was finished. A printout of the guidelines was pasted on the wall of his Bengaluru house, proper subsequent to a different printed paper with the phrases ‘Justice is due’.
Atul Subhash, who hanged himself on Monday, left behind a 24-page suicide observe and recorded a virtually 90-minute lengthy video by which he alleges that his spouse and her kin had filed a slew of false cases towards him and his household and had been making an attempt to get him to pay Rs 2 lakh a month as upkeep for her and the couple’s four-year-old son. Subhash, who’s initially from Bihar, additionally made allegations towards a decide in Uttar Pradesh’s Jaunpur, the place his in-laws dwell and a few of his instances had been being heard, claiming that she had demanded Rs 5 lakh from him to settle them. He additionally wrote a letter to the President, criticising the felony justice system and highlighting a rising development of false instances being filed towards males by their estranged wives.
The guidelines ready by Subhash was divided into three elements – ‘Earlier than final day’, ‘Final day’ and ‘Execute final second’ – and included objects like eradicating his cellphone fingerprint and face recognition, presumably in order that it may very well be accessed by others after he was lifeless; leaving his automobile, bike and room keys on the fridge; and finishing all his workplace work and submitting his workplace laptop computer and charger.
Whereas the record has a column for ticking off the duties within the ‘Final day’ and ‘Execute final second’ sections, it has ‘Executed’ printed towards the objects within the ‘Earlier than final day’ part, indicating that these had already been accomplished earlier than the record was printed out. These included securing his funds, ending workplace duties and authorized preparations, compiling all communications, and backing up knowledge and “creating redundancies”.
Within the ‘Final day’ part, the techie, who works in Synthetic Intelligence based on his suicide observe, had one other job associated to creating a neighborhood knowledge backup as a redundancy. The opposite objects included eradicating the fingerprint from his cellphone, importing his scanned suicide observe, clearing all funds, importing his video suicide observe and submitting his laptop computer, charger and ID card at his workplace.
On the highest of the record on his ‘Execute Final Second’ part was having a shower, adopted by retaining his automobile, bike and room keys on the fridge and the suicide observe on the desk. The give attention to the automobile keys was additionally evident from the police criticism filed by Subhash’s brother, Bikas Kumar, who mentioned the techie had despatched him a number of messages saying goodbye and sharing the Google Maps location of his automobile. The opposite objects on the record included sending messages to his legal professionals and household and sending mails to the Excessive Court docket and Supreme Court docket – after checking attachments – by which he had complained concerning the decide assigned to his case, who allegedly took bribes.
‘Took Months’
The truth that this record was rigorously deliberate was additionally mirrored in Subhash’s suicide observe, by which he mentions that it took him months to make sure that all his “pending tasks” had been accomplished.
“It took me just a few months to make it possible for I full my pending tasks I had in the direction of my household and end my work commitments and many others. Additionally loads of authorities workplace work is sluggish, that additionally led to this delay in suicide. I hope this delay won’t go towards me and won’t assist harassers and extorters of me and my household,” the techie wrote.
“The extra | work arduous and change into higher at my work, the extra l and my household might 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 outdated dad and mom and my brother. I’ll have destroyed my physique however it has saved the whole lot I consider in,” he mentioned in one other a part of the observe.
Instigation?
In his suicide observe, Subhash mentioned his spouse and her household’s instances towards him included one underneath the Dowry Prohibition Act and others pertaining to sections like cruelty towards a lady. He mentioned when he had identified to the decide at one level that males are dying by suicide due to false instances, his spouse had requested him why he wasn’t doing so. He claimed the decide had additionally laughed at this whereas ordering his spouse to go away the room after which his mother-in-law had requested why he had not died by suicide but.
Subhash mentioned when he had requested his mother-in-law how she and her daughter would get cash when he was gone, she mentioned she would get it from his dad and mom and be sure that his household stored doing the rounds of courts for all times.
“It appears that evidently Devi Saraswati herself made my mom in regulation disclose her plans and the answer of all the issues too. This incident together with instigation to commit suicide from my spouse and the face of the laughing decide mocking my helplessness has rendered my religion in authorized system destroyed and has prompted my motion of committing suicide (sic),” he wrote.
The police have registered an abutment of suicide case towards Subhash’s spouse and a few members of his household, based on information company PTI.