Bengaluru man commits suicide after recording video accusing wife of extortion; tags Musk, Trump in last post

The victim, identified as Atul Subhash, originally hails from Uttar Pradesh and was found dead at his home in Manjunath Layout in Bengaluru.

His neighbours found Atul hanging after breaking into his apartment.

A placard reading "justice is due" was found in his room.

His brother Bikas Kumar told police that Atul's estranged wife had filed false cases against him and his parents. He was upset as a result.

Police also recovered a suicide note and registered a case of abetment of suicide following a complaint.

In the video that was recorded shortly before he committed suicide, Atul made serious allegations against his estranged wife and her family members. He also named a judge from Uttar Pradesh's Jaunpur in the video.

Atul also left a letter that was addressed to the President, in which he criticised the criminal justice system and flagged a trend of false cases.

On another note, he wrote that he pleads not guilty to all the charges brought against him by his wife which include cases under the Dowry Prohibition Act and relevant sections such as causing hurt or cruelty against a woman under the Indian Penal Code.

"I humbly request the court to stop harassing my parents and brother in these false cases," he wrote.

In the video, Atul Subhash said he got married in 2019 after following a match on a matrimonial website. The couple had a son the next year. He has alleged that his wife's family would repeatedly demand huge sums of money and when he refused, his wife left his home with their son in 2021.

The next year she filed a case against him and his family under multiple sections, including murder and unnatural sex, as per Atul's note available with the police.

In the police complaint, she alleged that Atul had demanded a dowry of Rs.10 lakh and this put pressure on her father, who eventually died of a heart attack.

"This is some poor Bollywood plot. She has already confessed that her father was suffering from long term illness in her cross examination. Her father was getting treated from AIIMS for the last 10 years for heart disease, diabetes etc. Doctors gave him few months and hence we got married quickly," Atul wrote in the suicide note. This case was subsequently withdrawn.

Atul has said that his wife and her family initially demanded Rs.1 crore to settle the case, but later hiked the price to Rs.3 crore.

He has also described a court exchange in which Atul said that when he told the judge that men are dying by suicide as a result of false cases, his wife replied, "Then why don't you?" At this, he said, the judge laughed and asked her to leave the room. Atul has also alleged that the judge said he "must think about his family" and directed him to pay Rs. 5 lakh to "settle the case".

Atul highlighted another exchange with his mother-in-law in the suicide note in which she allegedly asked why he had not died by suicide yet.

When Atul replied that how would they get money if he died, she allegedly said, "Your father will pay. Your parents will die after you, and your wife will get the money."

Atul Subhash then posted this video on X and tagged its CEO Elon Musk as well as US President-elect Donald Trump. "I will be dead when you will read this. A legal genocide of men happening in India currently. A dead man is requesting Elon Musk and Donald Trump to save millions of life from woke Ideologies, Abortion, DEI and restore freedom of speech in India," he had said in the post.