Pune man lists wife in escort service website to get back at her for fighting

Mumbai: A Pune based software engineer’s attempt to harass his wife backfired miserably when he was booked by police on Monday for allegedly posting his wife’s phone number and contact details in a website that provided escort services.

According to reports, the 33-year-old woman, who also works in the IT sector, lodged a complaint with the Hinjewadi police station on July 22 against unknown people for registering her phone number and other details with the escort website.

She claimed that she was receiving ‘obscene calls’ from strangers.

A few days into the investigation, the police traced the website and the IP address from which the details were uploaded, and found out that the IP address was registered with the same residential address furnished by the victim.

"We later got to know that the information was uploaded from a tablet which was owned by her husband," said Arun Waykar of the Hinjewadi police station.

On interrogation, the 35-year-old man confessed to his crimes, and said that he uploaded her details in the escort service website two months ago as he wanted to teach his wife a lesson for annoying him and picking fights with him often.

The couple have been married for three years.