Court’s “Stranger” Remark As Atul Subhash’s Mother 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 instructed the Supreme Courtroom in the present day that the kid is at a boarding college in Haryana’s Faridabad. Nikita’s lawyer added that the kid could 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 relations of harassing him and his mother and father by submitting false circumstances towards them. Nikita, her mom Nisha, and her brother Anurag are going through an abetment to suicide case and are presently out on bail.

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

“We’ll take the kid to Bengaluru. We now have taken the boy out of faculty. The mom has to stay in Bengaluru to satisfy bail circumstances,” her lawyer instructed 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 instructed the courtroom that because the grandmother, she ought to be given custody of the kid. The lawyer mentioned a toddler beneath six shouldn’t be despatched to a boarding college.

The bench additionally famous that the kid has barely frolicked together 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 photos 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 dwelling after an altercation and in 2022, she filed a case towards Atul and his relations. 

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

The bench mentioned that the difficulty 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 notice, the techie accused Nikita and his relations 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.