An Indian-American CEO, accused of beating his wife for several years, may end up serving a prison sentence for less than a month.

38-year-old Abhishek Gattani pleaded “no contest” to beating his 36-year-old wife Neha Rastogi. He was offered the plea deal in a Santa Calara Court, California that will probably allow him to serve less than a month in jail.

In the nearly six-minute-long video that former Apple executive Rastogi recorded on May 17 last year, one could hear repeated thwacks in the presence of their then two-year-old daughter.

He pleaded no contest when his wife approached the police. Chargers on Gattani were reduced to felony accessory from felony assault after the fact, with an accompanying misdemeanor of “offensive touching.”

Steve Fein, who is the Prosecutor Assistant District Attorney, described the plea deal as a fair outcome. The plea calls for a six month jail sentence, though only 30 days of actual incarceration, with the balance served in the weekend work program, doing manual labor for eight hour shifts, but otherwise at liberty.

Gattani was charged with felony assault in 2013, which was later reduced to a misdemeanor after Rastogi told the judge that a felony could jeopardize his career and force him back to India.

Rastogi in a four page impact statement, that she read aloud in the court last Thursday, declared herself doubly victimized by her husband and by the criminal justice system.

"Offensive touching, I call it terrorism... That's how I felt, terrorized and controlled, held hostage by the fear of pain, humiliation and assault on my being and my daughter's," Rastogi was quoted as saying by the report.

Allison Marston Danner was the judge who presided over the case, but she was on vacation when the sentencing was scheduled. Rodney Stafford a pro-term judge put off the sentencing until May 18th.

Gattani, who is the co-founder and CEO of Cuberon, a customer behavior analytics company, got married to Rastogi in 2009.

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