An NYPD cop was busted Saturday night for allegedly choking and hitting his wife at their Queens home, authorities said.

Carlos Marin, 27, was slapped with assault charges and had an order of protection issued against him on behalf of his wife.

“He just can’t be where she is,” said Queens Criminal Court Judge Eugene Guarino, before releasing Marin on his own recognizance.

The case was downgraded from a felony to a misdemeanor.

During Marin’s arraignment, prosecutors said the wife initially told cops Marin grabbed her around the neck with both hands and hit her repeatedly.

However, she later told detectives a slightly different story, claiming her husband had one hand around her neck and hit her twice, prosecutors said.

Marin remains mum during the arraignment, but his parents sat in the second row crying.

Afterwards, his mother could be heard saying: “She’s lying. She’s going to mess up his career.”

Marin declined to comment as he left court a sweatshirt hood pulled over his head.