Bengaluru, March 28 -- The Madras high court on Thursday directed the police not to "harass" software firm Rippling co-founder Prasanna Sankaranarayanan, who is embroiled in a bitter divorce battle with his estranged wife.

An X thread went viral earlier this week where the tech co-founder accused his wife of filing false cases in a bid to abduct their son and take him out of the country amid ongoing matrimonial disputes between them.

Justice GK Ilanthiraiyan allowed and disposed of Sankaranarayanan's petition urging the court to exercise its jurisdiction under Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita's Section 528 to direct the police to not harass him under the guise of a probe.

Senior advocates Geeta Luthra and A Ramesh, representing Sankar...