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Bengaluru techie suicide: SC to hear plea of deceased's mother seeking grandson's custody on Jan 20

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Jan 18, 2025 01:41 PM IST

The Supreme Court had denied the late techie's mother custody of her minor grandson on January 7, saying she was "stranger to the child".

The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Monday a plea filed by the mother of Bengaluru-based engineer who committed suicide in 2024 alleging harassment by wife, seeking his minor son's custody.

A SC bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and Saish Chandra Sharma is likely to hear the plea. (PTI)
A SC bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and Saish Chandra Sharma is likely to hear the plea. (PTI)

A bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and Saish Chandra Sharma is likely to hear the plea by Anju Devi who has filed a habeas corpus petition, seeking the custody of her four-year-old grandson.

On January 7, the top court had denied her the minor's custody saying she was "stranger to the child".

The engineer, 34, who was found hanging at his house in Bengaluru's Munnekolalu on December 9 last year, purportedly left behind lengthy messages, blaming his wife and in-laws for pushing him to take the extreme step.

During the last hearing, the top court was informed by the counsel appearing for the techie's estranged wife that the child was studying at a boarding school in Haryana.

Advocate Kumar Dushyant Singh, representing Devi, had sought the child's custody and alleged her estranged daughter-in-law had kept child's location under wraps.

He had argued a child below six years of age should not be sent to a boarding school and relied on photos to show the petitioner interacting with the child when he was only a couple of years old.

The apex court had then directed the child to be produced in court on the next hearing on January 20, and said the case couldn't be decided on the basis of a media trial.

A Bengaluru court on January 4 granted bail to the techie's estranged wife, her mother and brother, in the abetment of suicide case.

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