An American woman, Lalita Kai, was chained to a tree and left alone in a jungle along with her documents among other things in the Sindhudurg district by her ex-husband, Satish, after she told him she did not want to live in India as his wife. The police travelled to Tamil Nadu to arrest him, only to find that the address on the woman’s Aadhaar card belongs to a cyber cafe.

In her written testimony, Kai stated: “Please bring a cutting blade to break my chain and please bring me some food. I have not eaten any food for 25 days. I am a crime victim. My former husband, Satish, brought me to your forest, tied me with a luggage chain to the tree and left. He did this crime after I told him ‘I am leaving you to return to the United States, I don’t want to live in India any more as your wife. You have been beating me every few weeks. I don’t want a husband who is beating me’.”