Delhi Judge Found Dead Suicide Suspected

A 30-year-old judge in the Delhi Judicial Services was found dead in his residence in New Delhi's Safdarjung area on Saturday, with police suspecting suicide by hanging and launching an inquest into the circumstances.

Aman Kumar Sharma, who had served as full-time secretary of the District Legal Services Authority in the North-East district at Karkardooma Courts since October 2025, was discovered inside a locked bathroom after family members conducted a prolonged search. According to accounts from relatives, Sharma's father, Prem Sharma, received a distressed call from his son around 10 p.m. the previous night. "I am very troubled and it has become difficult for me to live. I've been harassed for two months," the father recounted to police, relatives said.

Prem Sharma traveled immediately from Alwar, Rajasthan, arriving at the residence around midnight. There, he learned of ongoing domestic conflicts involving Sharma's wife, who is also a judicial officer, and her sister, an IAS officer posted in Jammu. Tensions reportedly escalated, with the wife allegedly telling her father-in-law to leave or she would call police. Efforts to contact her parents failed as their phones were...