Courtroom’s “Stranger” Comment As Atul Subhash’s Mom Seeks Grandson’s Custody

New Delhi:

Ending weeks of suspense over the whereabouts of AI techie Atul Subhash’s four-year-son, his estranged spouse Nikita Singhania advised the Supreme Courtroom 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 along 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 mother and father by submitting false circumstances towards them. Nikita, her mom Nisha, and her brother Anurag are dealing with an abetment to suicide case and are at present out on bail.

Atul’s mom Anju Devi has approached the Supreme Courtroom, searching for custody of her grandson. Nikita’s lawyer advised 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, should be shifted to Bengaluru as a result of Nikita must be there as per the circumstances of her bail.

“We are going to take the kid to Bengaluru. We’ve got taken the boy out of faculty. The mom has to stay in Bengaluru to meet bail circumstances,” her lawyer advised the bench of Justice BV Nagarathna and Justice N Kotiswar Singh.

The bench then directed that the kid should be produced in courtroom within the subsequent listening to.

The lawyer representing Anju Devi advised the courtroom that because the grandmother, she ought to be given custody of the kid. The lawyer mentioned a toddler under six shouldn’t be despatched to a boarding college.

The bench additionally famous that the kid has barely frolicked along with his grandmother. “Sorry to say however the baby 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 Anju Devi’s lawyer mentioned they’ve footage of the grandmother interacting with the kid when he was two years outdated. Atul and Nikita married in 2019 and had a son the following 12 months. In 2021, Nikita left their Bengaluru residence after an altercation and in 2022, she filed a case towards Atul and his members of the family. 

The courtroom additionally careworn that Nikita Singhania is but to be confirmed responsible and that it might probably’t determine the matter based mostly on a “media trial”.

The bench mentioned that the difficulty of the kid’s custody must be taken up within the acceptable courtroom the place the trial is on. The subsequent 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 notice, the techie accused Nikita and his members of the family of submitting false circumstances towards him and his mother and father to extort cash from them. He additionally alleged that the justice system is biased to favour ladies in such circumstances.

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.