BENGALURU: A 45-year-old garment entrepreneur with two wives is in a fix after he broke their tripartite arrangement on sharing his time with them, thanks to the lockdown. Following this, one of his wives has now approached the women’s helpline of Bengaluru city police with a request that he be brought to her house.

According to helpline officials, Naveen (name changed), 40, a resident of east Bengaluru, is married to Madhuri (name changed), 38 and the couple has a child. Ten years after their marriage, Madhuri discovered that Naveen was having an affair with Rakshitha (name changed), 34. Naveen used to divide his time between his two wives so carefully that one did not know about the other.

When Madhuri found out about his affair, Naveen confessed that he had tied the knot with Rakshitha too. A couple of years ago, Madhuri took up the issues with Parihar, Bengaluru city police’s women’s helpline. However, Naveen convinced Madhuri into not pursuing the matter legally. At a meeting convened by the elders of all the three parties, Naveen agreed to take care of both Madhuri and Rakshitha.

According to the agreement, Naveen was supposed to take care of all the expenditure of both the families and had to stay one week with one wife and the next with the other. Naveen stayed true to his commitment. But all hell broke loose after the lockdown was announced. Naveen, who was in Rakshitha’s house from March 21, had to turn up at Madhuri’s house on March 28, but couldn’t.

Madhuri began calling him to come home as she was running out of groceries and other stuff. Naveen assured her that he would come to her home at the first available opportunity. However, when Naveen did not return, Madhuri approached the women’s helpline. Enquiries revealed Naveen had left Rakshitha’s place and was staying with a friend in Vijayanagar.

Aparna Purnesh, senior counsellor, said: “Naveen told us that he’d arrange for supply of groceries to Madhuri’s house. He assured us that he would follow the tripartite agreement he had entered into with his two wives once the situation normalised,” she added.