Atul Subhash was discovered lifeless at his Bengaluru flat final morning
New Delhi:
A 34-year-old man died by suicide at his residence in Bengaluru, shortly after recording a video accusing his estranged spouse and her household of harassment. Bengaluru police have additionally discovered a suicide be aware and registered a case of abetment of suicide following a criticism.
Atul Subhash, initially from Bihar, was discovered lifeless at his residence in Manjunath Structure in Bengaluru. Neighbours discovered him hanging after breaking into the flat. A placard that learn, “justice is due” was present in his room. His brother Bikas Kumar informed police that Atul’s estranged spouse had filed false instances in opposition to him and his mother and father and that he was mentally upset.
Atul has made critical allegations in opposition to his spouse, her members of the family and a choose in Uttar Pradesh’s Jaunpur in a video. He has additionally left behind a letter addressed to the President, through which he criticised the felony justice system and flagged a development of false instances. In one other be aware, he has stated he pleads not responsible to all the fees introduced in opposition to him by his spouse. These embody costs beneath the Dowry Prohibition Act and related sections akin to inflicting damage or cruelty in opposition to a lady beneath the Indian Penal Code. “I humbly request the courtroom to cease harassing my mother and father and brother in these false instances,” he stated.
Within the video he recorded earlier than dying by suicide and within the be aware he left behind, Atul Subhash stated he married in 2019 after a match on a matrimonial web site. The couple had a son the subsequent 12 months. He has alleged that his spouse’s household would repeatedly demand cash working into a number of lakhs. When he refused to provide more cash, his spouse left the Bengaluru residence with their son in 2021.
The following 12 months, Atul wrote within the be aware, she filed a case in opposition to him and his household beneath a number of sections, together with homicide and unnatural intercourse. She alleged that he demanded dowry of Rs 10 lakh and this put stress on her father and he died of a coronary heart assault. “That is some 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 many others. Docs gave him few months and therefore we bought married rapidly,” he has stated. This case, he stated, was subsequently withdrawn.
Atul has stated 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 courtroom trade through which he stated that when he informed the choose that males are dying by suicide attributable to false instances, his spouse replied, “Then why not?” At this, he stated, the choose laughed and requested her to depart the room. Atul has additionally alleged that the choose stated he “should take into consideration his household” and demanded Rs 5 lakh to “settle the case”.
Atul narrated one other trade along with his mother-in-law through which she allegedly requested why he had not died by suicide but. When Atul replied that how would they get cash if he died, she allegedly stated, “Your father can pay. Your mother and father will die after you, and your spouse will get the cash.”
Atul additionally stated his spouse and her household did not let him meet his son after his spouse left with him. Raging in opposition to the regulation coping with such instances, he wrote in his suicide be aware, “The extra I work arduous and change into higher at my work, the extra I and my household shall 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 cause to harass my previous mother and father and my brother. I’ll have destroyed my physique but it surely has saved all the things I imagine in.”
Atul Subhash additionally shared a hyperlink of his video on X and tagged its CEO Elon Musk and US President Elect Donald Trump. “I shall be lifeless when you’ll learn this. A authorized genocide of males occurring in India at the moment. A lifeless man is requesting Elon Musk and Donald Trump to save lots of tens of millions of life from woke Ideologies, Abortion, DEI and restore freedom of speech in India,” he stated in a submit.