Sachin Bansal

Bansal was born in Chandigarh, India, on 5 August 1981. His father is a businessman and his mother, is a homemaker.

Bansal was educated at St. Anne's Convent School, Chandigarh. After completing his schooling Sachin appeared for IIT JEE entrance exam and on his first attempt he got all India rank of 2470. It was there that he regularised his schedule even more. And then on his second attempt he got an All India rank of 49th after which he attended IIT Delhi and graduated with a B.Tech degree in Computer Science and Engineering. After graduation, Bansal worked at Techspan for a few months and later in 2006 he joined Amazon Web Services as a senior software engineer. In 2007, Bansal quit Amazon to start his own company.

Sachin Bansal is married to Priya Bansal Singh, a dentist by training and profession. They have one son, Aryaman.

Domestic violence allegations

In March 2020, Sachin Bansal's wife Priya Bansal filed a dowry harassment case against him alleging physical and sexual assault, and pressure to transfer properties to his name.

She also alleged that Sachin sexually assaulted her sister. A first information report registered at the Koramangala police station on 28 February named four persons, including Sachin's parents, Sat Prakash Agarwal and Kiran Bansal and brother Nitin Bansal.

In response, Sachin Bansal and his family members filed petitions under the Code of Criminal Procedure before the High Court of Karnataka. The complaint as well as the FIR was quashed by the orders of High Court of Karnataka dated 13 August 2021 and 28 September 2021.

Priya Bansal subsequently filed a special leave petition before the Supreme Court of India challenging the earlier Order by the High Court of Karnataka. The said petition was dismissed by the Supreme Court of India on 11 March 2022.