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Age: 34 Years
Death Cause: Suicide
Wife: Nikita Singhania
Some Lesser Known Facts About Atul Subhash
- Atul Subhash grew up in Bihar.
- After completing his formal studies, he moved from Bihar to Bengaluru, where he began working as an automobile executive at a private firm.
- In 2019, Atul married Nikita Singhania after meeting her on a matchmaking website.
- In early 2020, Nikita and her family began putting pressure on Atul for financial support. They asked him for expensive gifts for her mother and demanded that he invest in her brother’s cloud kitchen business.
- Nikita’s family repeatedly demanded large sums of money, running into several lakhs. Atul initially provided the money, but refused to give more.
- In May 2021, Nikita left Atul and their son. Later that year, she filed for divorce but withdrew the case six months later by claiming that she was unaware that her lawyer had filed it.
- During a court hearing in 2021, Nikita demanded a monthly maintenance of Rs. 2 lakh for their son and Rs. 1 lakh for herself.
- In 2022, Nikita filed multiple legal cases against Atul, including domestic violence, unnatural sex, and dowry harassment.
- Nikita accused Atul and her family of demanding Rs. 10 lakh in dowry and claimed that this demand caused her father to die of shock. However, during court proceedings, it was revealed that her father had actually passed away in August 2019 due to a heart-related ailment. She then withdrew the case.
- Nikita filed another domestic violence case in 2022, but neither she nor her lawyer attended hearings for two years. The case was dismissed in 2024.
- Nikita demanded Rs. 3 crore as a settlement duing the divorce case and later increased her demands. She also kept their son away from Atul and demanded Rs. 30 lakh from him to allow him to visit their son.
- Atul attended over 120 court hearings and travelled 40 times between Bengaluru and Jaunpur. He had six cases against him in lower courts and three in higher courts.
- In September 2024, Nikita again filed a domestic violence case against Atul.
- On 10 December 2024, Atul was found hanging at his residence in Manjunatha Layout, Marathahalli, Bengaluru. He left behind a 24-page suicide note (4 handwritten pages and 20 typed pages) and an 80-minute video explaining the reasons for his decision.
- In the video, Atul named Principal Family Judge Rita Kaushik and prosecutor Madhav and accused them of corruption and exploitation. He mentioned that the judge asked for bribe and demanded Rs. 5 lakh in return for a favorable judgment.
- His video soon went viral on the internet and sparked discussion on the misuse of legal provisions in matrimonial cases.
- His note titled “Justice is Due,” highlighted the harassment he and his family faced due to false accusations and legal manipulation by Nikita and her family. He named Nikita Singhania, her mother Nisha Singhania, brother Anurag Singhania, and her uncle Sushil Singhania.
- Following Atul’s death, his brother Bikas filed a complaint against Nikita and her family. The FIR was filed under section 108 (abetment of suicide) and section 3 (5) (establishes joint criminal liability when two or more people act with a common intention) of the BNS.