Bengaluru Police have filed an FIR against the wife of a Bengaluru-based software engineer along with four other family members for abetting his suicide.
Atul Subhash, the 34-year-old software engineer originally hailing from Uttar Pradesh, had alleged mental harassment and extortion by his wife and her family, before ending his life.
He sent a suicide note to several people and shared it in a WhatsApp group associated with an NGO he was part of besides also recording a video and then sharing it on the social media.
“Based on a complaint filed by the deceased’s brother, we have booked a case against his wife, her mother, brother and uncle, who were allegedly demanding 3 crore to settle legal disputes filed. Based on the complaint, we have booked them under Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) section 108 (abetment of suicide) and launched an investigation,” The Hindustan Times quote Marathahalli police inspector Anil Kumar as saying.
Reports said that the deceased had met his wife in a matrimonial site following which they tied the knot in 2019.
However, differences surfaced between the two and his wife left his Bengaluru home with her son.
She and her family members, reports said, began demanding huge sums of money from Atul. Apart from mental harassment from his wife, he also alleged that a judge also sought Rs 5 lakh from him to settle one of the cases.
