The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Monday a plea filed by the mother of Atul Subhash, a Bengaluru-based engineer who committed suicide in 2024, allegedly due to harassment by his wife, seeking custody of his minor son.
A bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and Saish Chandra Sharma is likely to hear the plea by Anju Devi, who has filed a habeas corpus petition seeking custody of her four-year-old grandson.
On January 7, the top court denied her request for custody of the minor, saying she was a "stranger to the child."
Subhash, 34, was found hanging at his house in Bengaluru's Munnekolalu on December 9 last year. He purportedly left behind lengthy messages blaming his wife and in-laws for pushing him to take the extreme step.
During the last hearing, the top court was informed by the counsel representing Subhash's estranged wife, Nikita Singhania, that the child was studying at a boarding school in Haryana.
Advocate Kumar Dushyant Singh, representing Devi, had sought the child's custody and alleged that her estranged daughter-in-law had kept the child's location secret.
He argued that a child under six years old should not be sent to a boarding school and presented photos showing the petitioner interacting with the child when he was only a couple of years old.
The apex court had directed that the child be produced in court for the next hearing on January 20 and stated that the case could not be decided based on a media trial.
On January 4, a Bengaluru court granted bail to Subhash's estranged wife, her mother Nisha Singhania, and her brother Anurag Singhania in the abetment of suicide case.
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