How 1 Phone Call Helped Bengaluru Cops Track Down Nikita Singhania, Family

While Nikita Singhania moved to a PG accommodation in Gurugram, her mother and brother hid in Jhusi town in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj district

Nikita Singhania, the estranged wife of 34-year-old techie Atul Subhash, changed her location every day, made calls only on WhatsApp and constantly tried to secure anticipatory bail after Atul's family filed a suicide abetment case against her. But one phone call gave her away and Bengaluru police tracked her down to Gurugram, police sources have told news agency IANS.

While Nikita was arrested from Gurugram, her mother Nisha Singhania and brother Anurag Singhania were taken into custody from Prayagraj. Nikita's uncle Sushil Singhania, the fourth accused in the suicide abetment case, is on the run. The four have been remanded in judicial custody for two weeks.

According to police sources, the accused had locked up their home in Uttar Pradesh's Jaunpur soon after Bengaluru police registered the case against them. When Bengaluru police personnel reached Jaunpur, they pasted notices on the Singhanias' home, asking them to appear within three days. The team also made a list of the family's close relatives and monitored them. But the accused, the sources said, made calls only on WhatsApp and it was difficult to track them.