Hyderabad, Jul 28 (PTI) A trainee IPS officer, who was booked for allegedly sexually harassing a fellow woman trainee at the SVPNPA here, was questioned by police on Tuesday, officials said.
“Police was questioning him (trainee IPS officer),” official sources said on Tuesday night.
The 32-year-old trainee, who was booked on July 18 for “stalking and sexually harassing” a fellow woman trainee IPS officer at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy (SVPNPA) here, had subsequently approached the Telangana High Court seeking to quash the FIR registered against him.
The matter would come up for hearing in the court on July 29.
After the registration of the case, the accused in a social media post had said that the complaint and rumours against him are baseless and untrue.
A 30-year-old woman trainee IPS officer had lodged a complaint with the police, alleging that the trainee officer had been harassing her by sending sexually abusive messages through an instant messaging application since June 23 and making derogatory remarks about her at the academy in the presence of her friends.
She alleged that he falsely accused her of having a sexual relationship with another trainee, pressured her to admit to such a relationship and verbally abused her. She alleged that on July 9, he wrongfully restrained her, forcibly took her to his room, grabbed her by the hair, attempted to strangle her, held a knife to her neck and prevented her from leaving the room.
The complainant accused him of recording a private video of her without her knowledge or consent and sending it to her husband in an attempt to blackmail her.
Based on the complaint, Attapur police registered a case under relevant provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita relating to assault or use of criminal force against a woman with intent to outrage her modesty, sexual harassment, stalking, and words, gestures or acts intended to insult the modesty of a woman, besides provisions of the Information Technology Act, police said.
The accused trainee officer was admitted to a hospital on July 20 by his brother and friends after they found him in an unconscious state at a flat here. They suspected that he might have consumed a harmful substance.
However, a treating doctor had said nothing abnormal was found after a gastric lavage was performed and his condition was stable.
The accused trainee officer had previously served as a constable in the Andhra Pradesh Police. PTI VVK VVK ADB
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