3 min readHyderabadJul 29, 2026 10:19 PM IST
A local court has remanded a 33-year-old trainee IPS officer to 14-day judicial custody for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman IPS trainee in Hyderabad.
He has been booked on charges of rape, sexual assault, attempt to murder, stalking and criminal intimidation.
The accused, M Uday Krishna 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 joined service in 2025.
According to the Hyderabad Police, he came into contact with the complainant when she responded to his Instagram post about his “journey towards success in cracking the IPS exam”. After exchanging numbers, the two allegedly entered into a relationship. “The relationship was marked with frequent arguments, emotional manipulation, possessiveness and volatile behaviour,” a statement by Hyderabad Police read.
“The accused repeatedly threatened to commit suicide, displayed weapons, insulted the complainant, made persistent remarks for multiple relationships and engaged in acts of harassment including throwing and damaging her laptop, creating fake social media accounts after being blocked, threatening to release private chats, and contacting her family and colleagues without her consent,” the police statement claimed.
The NPA has not officially responded to the complaint.
According to the complaint, after she ended the relationship and married someone else, Reddy allegedly continued to harass her, stalking her online and threatening to release private chats to her family members.
The accused was arrested on a complaint filed by the woman and was produced before XXV Additional Judicial Magistrate of First-Class Ranga Reddy district. Hyderabad police noted that “appropriate legal action is being taken strictly in accordance with the law. The magistrate directed the accused to be in judicial custody for the next 14 days”.
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In her complaint dated July 18, the woman IPS trainee alleged that Reddy harassed her by sending “sexually abusive messages” on WhatsApp, and 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 “completely baseless” grounds. She also alleged that he forcibly accessed her personal mobile phone after making her unlock the device, and “blackmailed me to show my personal messages to him”.
“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 alleged. It further accused Reddy of having held a knife against the complainant’s neck and “did not allow me to leave his room”. She alleged that he “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.
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Following the registration of the FIR, 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.”