New Delhi, March 24 -- In a twist stranger than fiction, Prasanna Sankar, the co-founder of the $10-billion tech giant Rippling, now finds himself on the run, not from competitors or regulators, but from the Tamil Nadu police. The reason is a highly-publicised and deeply-personal domestic dispute that's erupted into a full-blown legal and media war.

Once hailed as India's top coder and an NIT Trichy alumnus who went on to achieve massive success in Silicon Valley, Prasanna's turn in life has been both swift and dramatic.

In a sensational Twitter (now X) post, Prasanna has shared that he is fleeing Tamil Nadu, hiding with his 9-year-old son. The post comes amid allegations ranging from assault to rape, the claims he vehemently denies and...