Atul Subhash suicide case: Search on for estranged wife, in-laws

Police sources in Bengaluru confirmed that a team from Marathahalli police was dispatched to Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday. “The investigating officer will determine whether to issue notices or take the suspects into custody,” a senior officer said.

Reports indicate that Nisha and Anurag fled their Jaunpur home late Wednesday. Video clips that surfaced on social media also showed them purportedly leaving home around midnight. “We are yet to receive any official communication from Bengaluru Police,” Jaunpur SP Ajaypal Sharma said on Thursday.

Vijay Mishra, the lawyer for Atul’s in-laws, said that Nikita had filed a case for maintenance against Atul. “We are unable to understand why he ended his life. A thorough investigation is needed to uncover the truth,” he added.

Addressing the media, Nikita’s uncle Sushil, who has been named an accused, said: “I have no connection with this and the divorce case has been going on for the last three years. Our family is not guilty and the allegations levelled by Subhash are not true. Nikita will respond to everything before the court of law.”

A police officer told news agency PTI that at around 1 am on Thursday, Nisha Singhania and her son Piyush had left their home in the Khowa Mandi area on a motorcycle and have not returned since.

He added that there was a routine-level of police deployment in the Khowa Mandi area as required for law-and-order maintenance. Meanwhile, Kotwali police station in-charge, Inspector Mithilesh Mishra, said that the police have received no orders yet to arrest Nisha Singhania and the other accused. Nikita and Subhash had married in April 2019 and in 2022, she had registered an FIR against her husband and in-laws, accusing them of dowry harassment.