Overview
- Hyderabad police’s Women’s Safety Wing arrested M. Uday Krishna Reddy and a city court remanded him to 14 days' judicial custody on Wednesday in a case that has been expanded to include rape and attempt-to-murder charges.
- The FIR lodged on July 18 by a 30-year-old woman IPS trainee alleges repeated harassment, wrongful confinement, physical assault, attempted strangulation, threats with a knife, covert recording and that a private video was sent to her husband to blackmail her.
- Investigators say the complainant’s medical report showed marks consistent with strangulation and other injuries, and that CCTV and technical evidence were used both to escalate charges and to trace and intercept the accused after he was uncontactable.
- The Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy conducted an internal inquiry that found prima facie merit and suspended the trainee, while the accused denies the allegations and has moved the Telangana High Court seeking to quash the FIR.
- The case spotlights accountability at India’s premier police training institution and comes as Hyderabad police face separate misconduct probes, which could prompt closer review of grievance redressal and conduct oversight for trainees and officers.