Overview

• Vikas, a 31-year-old salesman from Nihal Vihar, Delhi, livestreamed his suicide on July 17, alleging his wife had an extramarital relationship with a man named Shakib and citing heavy debts and mental distress.
• In the video, he appealed for custody of his four-year-old son to be granted to his parents, claiming his wife had taken the child to her mother’s home without a stable income.
• Delhi Police responded to a PCR call, retrieved the viral footage and opened an investigation into potential abetment to suicide and related allegations.
• A post-mortem was conducted at Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital on July 17, after which authorities released Vikas’s body to his family.
• No formal charges have been filed as investigators review the livestream and record testimonies to decide on possible abetment to suicide counts.