A bench of Justices Bela M Trivedi and N Kotiswar Singh mentioned the difficulty of the kid’s custody might be raised earlier than the court docket conducting the trial.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday denied the mother of Atul Subhash, Bengaluru techie who died by suicide in 2024, his minor son’s custody saying she was “stranger to the child”.
A bench of Justices Bela M Trivedi and N Kotiswar Singh mentioned the difficulty of the kid’s custody might be raised earlier than the court docket conducting the trial.
“Sorry to say but the child is a stranger to the petitioner. If you wish, please visit the child. In case you want the custody of the child, there is a separate procedure,” mentioned the bench.
Subhash, 34, who was discovered hanging at his home in Bengaluru’s Munnekolalu on December 9, 2024, purportedly left behind prolonged messages, blaming his spouse and in-laws for taking the intense step.
The high court docket was listening to a habeas corpus petition filed by Anju Devi, Subhash’s mother, looking for custody of her four-year-old grandson.
During the listening to, the highest court docket was knowledgeable by the counsel showing for Subhash’s estranged spouse Nikita Singhania that the kid was finding out at a boarding faculty in Haryana.
“We will take the child to Bengaluru. We have taken the boy out of school. The mother has to remain in Bengaluru to fulfil the bail conditions,” submitted the counsel.
Advocate Kumar Dushyant Singh, representing Devi, sought the kid’s custody and alleged her estranged daughter-in-law had saved little one’s location beneath wraps.
He argued a toddler under six years of age shouldn’t be despatched to a boarding faculty and relied on photographs to indicate the petitioner interacting with the kid when he was solely a pair of years outdated.
The apex court docket directed the kid to be produced in court docket on the following listening to on January 20, and mentioned the case couldn’t be selected the premise of a media trial.
A Bengaluru court docket on January 4 granted bail to Subhash’s estranged spouse, her mother Nisha Singhania and brother Anurag Singhania, within the suicide abetment case.
Following his demise, an FIR was registered in Bengaluru towards Nikita and her household beneath Sections 108 (abetment of suicide) and three(5) (widespread intention) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.
(This story has not been edited by DNA workers and is revealed from PTI)
