Bengaluru-based techie, who went missing on August 4, has revealed a harrowing tale of domestic abuse. The man, who was found in Noida after a week-long search on August 15 evening, confessed to having fled his home to escape the alleged torture inflicted by his wife.

The investigating officers claim that they ran into the techie right after he left the mall. Quoting one of the team members, a senior police officer said, “When three of us surrounded him, he realized we were cops in civil clothes. He smiled and asked what was next. We told him we should fly back to the city and he strongly objected.”

It took three men several hours to persuade the techie to return home. He warned them over and over, “You put me in prison, I will live there…but I won’t return.”https://d-1672884596305838710.ampproject.net/2406131415000/nameframe.html

When the police informed him that his wife’s missing person report needed to be closed in his presence, he finally agreed.

On Friday morning, the techie and others touched down at Kempegowda International Airport. He rested for a short while before the police took his statement and sent him back home.

The techie claims that his wife tortures and harasses him. I’m her second husband. When I met her around three years back, she was a divorcee with a daughter around 12. I was a bachelor and agreed to marry her. We have an old eight-month-old daughter together.” The techie told authorities, “She curtails my freedom, she shouts even if a piece of rice or Chapati falls off my plate. I should dress according to her, I cannot go out alone to enjoy tea.”

The techie changed his appearance and tonsured his head while his wife posted his videos and photos online and announced him missing. He told police that on August 4, he took a bus to Tirupati and subsequently a train to Bhubaneswar. After that, he went to Delhi and then Noida.