2 min readHyderabadJul 29, 2026 04:35 AM IST
Hyderabad police have taken trainee IPS officer M Uday Krishna Reddy into custody for allegedly sexually harassing another IPS trainee, senior officers said. Both the complainant and the accused were probationers at the National Police Academy (NPA) in Hyderabad.
Reddy was a constable with the Andhra Pradesh Police before he resigned from service in 2019 and cracked the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) examination. His journey from constable to IPS had made the news when he cracked the UPSC in 2024, and he had been congratulated by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu.
A complaint by the woman IPS trainee alleged that Reddy harassed her by sending “sexually abusive messages” on WhatsApp. In the complaint dated July 18, she also alleged that he made derogatory comments about her in front of other trainees at the academy. The alleged harassment had been underway since June 23, the complainant had said. Reddy has rejected the allegations.
The complainant further alleged that Reddy repeatedly accused her of being “in a relationship with another trainee” on what she claimed were “completely baseless” grounds. She also alleged that he forcibly accessed her personal mobile phone after making her unlock the device. He “blackmailed me to show my personal messages to him”, the complainant alleged.
“On July 9…, he restrained my movement and forced me to go to his room and grabbed me by my hair and tried to strangulate me…,” the complaint said. It further accused Reddy of having held a knife against the complainant’s neck and “did not allow me to leave his room”. She added that he allegedly physically assaulted her again on July 10.
“He recorded a private video without my consent or knowledge and sent it to my husband to blackmail me. He further tried to tarnish my image by false and degrading information,” she alleged in her complaint. An FIR was later registered.
Following the FIR, Krishna Reddy wrote on his Instagram page, “The complaint and rumours against me are baseless and untrue. I fully trust the legal process and believe justice will prevail.”