New Delhi:
Ending weeks of suspense over the whereabouts of AI techie Atul Subhash’s four-year-son, his estranged spouse Nikita Singhania informed the Supreme Court docket right this moment that the kid is at a boarding college in Haryana’s Faridabad. Nikita’s lawyer added that the kid can be taken to Bengaluru the place he can keep together with his mom.
Thirty-four-year-old Atul Subhash died by suicide in December after accusing Nikita and her members of the family of harassing him and his dad and mom by submitting false instances towards them. Nikita, her mom Nisha, and her brother Anurag are going through an abetment to suicide case and are at present out on bail.
Atul’s mom Anju Devi has approached the Supreme Court docket, in search of custody of her grandson. Nikita’s lawyer informed the courtroom right this moment that the four-year-old had been enrolled in a Faridabad boarding college and was there throughout her mom’s arrest and subsequent bail. The kid will, nonetheless, have to be shifted to Bengaluru as a result of Nikita must be there as per the situations of her bail.
“We’ll take the kid to Bengaluru. We’ve taken the boy out of faculty. The mom has to stay in Bengaluru to meet bail situations,” her lawyer informed the bench of Justice BV Nagarathna and Justice N Kotiswar Singh.
The bench then directed that the kid have to be produced in courtroom within the subsequent listening to.
The lawyer representing Anju Devi informed the courtroom that because the grandmother, she must be given custody of the kid. The lawyer mentioned a baby under six shouldn’t be despatched to a boarding college.
The bench additionally famous that the kid has barely hung out together with his grandmother. “Sorry to say however the youngster is a stranger to the petitioner,” Justice Nagaratna remarked. Anju Devi’s lawyer mentioned they’ve footage of the grandmother interacting with the kid when he was two years previous. Atul and Nikita married in 2019 and had a son the subsequent yr. In 2021, Nikita left their Bengaluru house after an altercation and in 2022, she filed a case towards Atul and his members of the family.
The courtroom additionally pressured that Nikita Singhania is but to be confirmed responsible and that it could possibly’t determine the matter primarily based on a “media trial”.
The bench mentioned that the problem of the kid’s custody should be taken up within the acceptable courtroom the place the trial is on. The following listening to on the matter is on January 20.
Atul Subhash died by suicide at his Bengaluru flat on December 9. In an 81-minute video and a 24-page suicide word, the techie accused Nikita and his members of the family of submitting false instances towards him and his dad and mom to extort cash from them. He additionally alleged that the justice system is biased to favour ladies in such instances.
The incident triggered outrage and a nationwide debate on the misuse of legal guidelines created to guard ladies from cruelty by husband or in-laws.