My name is Prasanna, who previously founded Rippling (worth $10B); I'm going through a divorce. I'm now on the run from the Chennai police hiding outside of Tamil Nadu. This is my story.
Born in Chennai, lived here for 20 years. I studied in NIT Trichy where I met my wife. I was ranked as #1 coder in India. I went to the US to start technology companies.
Me and my wife, Dhivya, were married for 10 years and we have a 9 year old son. Recently our marriage broke down after I discovered she was having an affair, with a person named Anoop for 6+ mos.
Anoop's wife sent me the message my wife had sent Anoop and hotel bookings she made for him.
After that we were negotiating the terms of how many million dollars I need to pay her, as a part of our divorce. She was unhappy and decided to instead filed a fake police complaint against me saying I hit her.
Later, she made further fake complaints that I raped her (1 mo after the alleged rape). That i circulated her nude videos. etc. Singapore police have investigated these allegations, found them baseless and have cleared me from all charges.
I filed for a divorce in India. She filed for a divorce in the US, to try and make more money from the divorce.
She then proceeded to abduct my child to the US to help with her divorce case. I filed an international child abduction case in the US. And the judge ruled in favor of me and asked to return the child.
Since she had violated laws in Singapore, she negotiated with me to instead come to Chennai, our home town and settle down here. We signed an MOU - I'd pay her approx 9 Crores and 4.3 Lakhs/month.
I booked her and my son flight tickets to return them to Chennai. As a part of the MOU we agreed to 50/50 custody of our son. Which happened for sometime.
As a part of the MOU, she had to deposit the child's passport in a common locker since I was worried she could fly away. She refused to follow it. She started claiming that the MOU is not valid and she wants more and will go to the US again to file a divorce.
Concerned, I moved to the courts, saying I'll return my child only after the passport is deposited in the locker. She did not attend the courts. Instead she showed up to my hotel at 10 PM in the night and calls my son to the lobby for 10m luring him which I stopped.
She then chose to call the police and filed a kidnapping complaint against me. The police knocked on the door in the middle of the night before which I was able to escape with my son.
I immediately send the police my side of the story with my lawyers and explain the child was voluntarily handed over. And the child is happy with me and show him on a video call. And that the matters are before the court. Hence cops shouldn't interfere.
The cops were still trying to locate me to my surprise. They hit my mom's house and asked for me. They kept pestering my friend, Gokul, who helped pick up the child saying he'd be made the main accused if he doesn't locate me.
Afraid, Gokul left to Bangalore and told the cops it's between husband and wife and they should leave him alone. Instead they raided him in Bangalore in mufty clothes, with no warrant or papers or intimation to local Bangalore police, picked him up to Chennai.
Last 3 days he is in custody without any FIR. They are telling him if I don't surrender he'd be harassed. They have not produced him in-front of a magistrate. Instead every morning they call him to the station and make him sit till night and let him go.
More recently, the threat is, if I do not remove my twitter posts - he'd be in trouble. They have told him to tell him, they will find me and make me face the consequence of going to the media.
Police and my wife will be conducting a joint press meet soon to accuse me of many crimes. They've also asked my friend Gokul to sign saying my social media tweets are false.
On Monday, I will be filing a "don't harass" for me in courts and taking matters through the court system. Meanwhile, my entire family, is out of the state, hiding from the TN cops.
Son is safe and happy with me.
Here's the US judgement against her child abduction: dropbox.com/scl/fi/4gd65m5…
My cell phone location, car, UPI, IP everything is being tracked by the cops. Illegally without any FIR. They went and seized the phone of a caretaker I paid 200 Rs to via UPI and hit the Airbnb where I was staying. Luckily got out before.
To all supporters - to be clear. I’m feeling the most alive right now and it’s great. I built an empire from nothing. I can handle this even if a state is on the other side. I’m a survivor not a victim.
And yes in my son, Amars most recent birthday last month, we launched amardao.xyz
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