Amid growing concerns over the gender-neutral laws in marital disputes in India, another case has emerged from Mumbai, where a man, Nishant Tripathi, blamed his wife and her aunt for his suicide. The incident comes in the wake of the Atul Subhash case, which had already ignited a nationwide discussion on men’s rights in such disputes.

A day after 41-year-old Tripathi was found dead in his hotel room in Vile Parle, his mother, Neelam Chaturvedi, took to social media to express her grief. Chaturvedi, a noted women’s rights activist, has filed a police complaint against her daughter-in-law Apoorva Parikh and Parikh’s aunt, Prarthana Mishra.

Authorities have charged the two women with abetment to suicide, but no arrests have been made so far.

Following her son’s cremation on March 2, Chaturvedi shared an emotional post on Facebook. “Today I feel like a living corpse,” she wrote. “You are seeing me as a living person, but the truth is that I am dead. My son, Nishant, left me. My daughter Prachi performed her elder brother’s last rites today at ECO-MOKSHA, Mumbai.”

“My son, Nishant, was my everything. He was not just my child but my friend, my companion, my strength,” she wrote. “Give me and my daughter Prachi courage so that I can bear such a big thunderbolt,” she said in her post.

Tripathi, a filmmaker, checked into the Sahara hotel on February 25. Three days later, on February 28, the hotel staff discovered his lifeless body in his locked room. A “Do Not Disturb” sign had been hung on the door before he took his life. His suicide note, uploaded on his company’s website and secured with a password, held his wife and her aunt responsible for his death.

“By the time you read this, I’ll be gone,” the note read. “In my last moments, I could’ve hated you for everything that happened. But I don’t. For this moment, I choose love. I loved you then. I love you now. And as I had promised, it’s not going to fade,” he wrote.

Tripathi also pleaded for his grieving mother to be left alone. “My mother knows among all the other struggles I faced, you and Prarthana Mausi are also responsible for my death. So I beg you don’t approach her now. She’s broken enough. Let her grieve in peace,” he wrote.