Ingredients of suicide abetment made out against Atul Subhash wife: Karnataka High Court

The Karnataka High Court on Monday took an unfavourable view of the quashing plea filed by Nikita Singhania booked for abetment of suicide of her husband Atul Subhash, a software engineer in Bengaluru..Justice SR Krishna Kumar said that all the ingredients of the offence of abetment of suicide seemed prima facie present in the first information report (FIR)."My reading of this complaint is that ingredients are made out. And it is not a case of quashing," the Court said.Singhania's counsel said the FIR has been challenged since it does not disclose the commission of the offence.However, the Court remarked that the FIR contains all details regarding the offence alleged."Details are given (in the complaint and FIR). Look at the complaint. All details are given. Tell me what more should have been given for abetment of suicide? According to me, all contents of abetment are there. Everything is narrated. In matters of this type, what more do you want? Details of offence under Section 306 of Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Section 108 Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS), what more can be given," the Court said.It eventually adjourned the matter after asking the prosecution to submit details of probe conducted so far and the material collected. "What material have you collected? Complaint along with other material on record, if either doesn't make cognizable offence, then it can be quashed," the Court remarked while deferring the case..The Court was hearing a petition filed by Singhania seeking quashing of the FIR against her. .A Bengaluru court had on January 4 granted interim bail to Singhania in the matter..Subhash, a 34-year-old software engineer, had died by suicide in Bengaluru. He left behind an elaborate suicide note and also made a video blaming his estranged wife Nikita Singhania and her family of harassing him and filing false cases against him, driving him to take his life.His video and suicide note sparked a debate on social media, with many calling for the arrest of Nikita and her family members.In the video, he was seen accusing Nikita Singhania and her family of harassing him through multiple matrimonial cases amid their ongoing legal battle over divorce, alimony and child custody in a family court in Uttar Pradesh's Jaunpur.After uproar over the suicide, a first information report (FIR) was lodged in Bengaluru against Nikita and her three family members under Sections 108 (abetment of suicide) and 3(5) (criminal act with a common intention) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.Subsequently, Nikita, her mother and brother were arrested by the Bengaluru police before being remanded to judicial custody.They then approached the High Court to quash the case.