Where was Atul Subhash's 4-year-old son? Techie's wife reveals whereabouts to top court

Atul Subhash died by suicide on December 9. (Image: X)

After weeks of suspense over the whereabouts of AI techie Atul Subhash's four-year-old son, his estranged wife Nikita Singhania, today told the Supreme Court that the child is at a boarding school in Haryana's Faridabad.

Nikita's lawyer told the court that the child would be taken to Bengaluru, where he could stay with his mother after she was granted bail last Saturday.

Atul Subhash, 34, died by suicide on December 9 in Bengaluru, alleging harassment by his estranged wife and her family. Leaving behind a 24-page suicide note, he accused his in-laws of pressuring him to pay Rs 3 crore for divorce. He further accused a family court judge of allegedly demanding a bribe to settle a maintenance case that his wife filed against him.

The Supreme Court was hearing a plea on Tuesday of Atul Subhash's mother seeking custody of her grandson. The top court observed that the child had one parent alive, and Subhash’s mother was virtually “a stranger to the child”.

“There is a separate procedure in case you want custody of the child, " one of the judges told Atul Subhash’s mother.

“We don’t want to say it, but you’re virtually a stranger to the child. If you wish, please visit the child,” the court told Atul Subhash’s mother and urged her not to call her daughter-in-law guilty till her crime was proven in court. The next hearing on the matter is on January 20.

On Monday, the Karnataka high court observed that it cannot quash the complaint filed against Nikita for allegedly abetting the suicide of her husband, Atul Subhash, as prima facie ingredients of the offence are made out in the complaint.

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A Bengaluru court on Saturday granted bail to Atul Subhash’s wife Nikita Singhania, her mother Nisha Singhania, and brother Anurag Singhania in the suicide abetment case.