Trainee IPS Officer M. Uday Krishna Reddy Gets Conditional Bail in SVPNPA Sexual Harassment Case

A Hyderabad court on Tuesday granted conditional bail to trainee IPS officer M. Uday Krishna Reddy in a sexual harassment case filed by a fellow probationer at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy (SVPNPA), bringing his judicial custody to an end after about 67 days. The Upparpally court ordered his release on two sureties of ₹25,000 each and required him to appear before police every Sunday, while making clear that the case itself will continue.

Reddy remains under suspension from the Academy, and the investigation as well as trial proceedings are still under way. The bail order does not dispose of the criminal case, and he continues to be an accused in the matter.

The allegations

The case began with an FIR registered by Attapur police on July 18, 2026, based on a complaint filed by a woman IPS probationer training at SVPNPA, Hyderabad. She is reported to be around 30 years old, married and from Karnataka. The complaint was later transferred to the Hyderabad City Police Women’s Safety Wing.

According to the complaint and the police remand report, the alleged misconduct took place over roughly two-and-a-half weeks, from June 23 to July 10, 2026. The woman alleged that Reddy sexually assaulted and harassed her, stalked her, wrongfully confined her, criminally intimidated her and caused hurt. She also accused him of recording a private video without her consent and sending it to her husband in an attempt to blackmail her. Police further cited abusive messages, threats and damage to her laptop.

The case was booked under Sections 74, 75, 77, 78, 79, 115(2), 127(2) and 351(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, along with provisions of the Information Technology Act. These sections relate to sexual assault, harassment, voyeurism, stalking, wrongful confinement, criminal intimidation and causing hurt. Both the complainant and the accused underwent medical examination. Police had earlier said doctors noted injuries on the complainant, including bruising on the cheek, marks around the neck and throat, and an injury on the left leg.

Reddy has denied the allegations. In a petition before the Telangana High Court seeking quashing of the FIR, and in public statements, he has maintained that the two were in a relationship that began during the foundation course at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie, and continued at SVPNPA. He has said the complaint was filed after the relationship ended following the complainant’s marriage to an IAS officer on May 28, 2026, and after he refused to resume the relationship. Those claims remain his version and have not been adjudicated.

Arrest, custody and court proceedings

Reddy, a 2025-batch IPS probationer from Woollapallem in Singarayakonda mandal of Andhra Pradesh’s Prakasam district, had earlier worked as a police constable before clearing the UPSC Civil Services Examination. He joined training at SVPNPA in December 2025.

After the FIR, he was untraceable for several days. Police teams tracked him using technical surveillance and intercepted him on July 28, 2026, near Damaracherla in Nalgonda district on the outskirts of Hyderabad. Officers said he had switched off his phones and resisted arrest. He was medically examined and then produced before the Upparpally court, which remanded him to 14 days of judicial custody on July 29, 2026. He was lodged at Chanchalguda Central Jail, and his custody was extended thereafter.

On August 4, the Rajendranagar Metropolitan Magistrate Court rejected his plea for interim bail, which he had sought to appear before an internal inquiry committee of the Academy. The Telangana High Court had earlier declined interim relief in his petition to quash the FIR and issued notice to the complainant.

In September, the High Court set aside a magistrate’s order of August 17 that had permitted a potency test under Section 52 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita. Justice J. Srinivas Rao held that the prosecution’s application was not legally sustainable, while clarifying that the prosecution could approach the court again if required. That order did not affect the criminal case.

SVPNPA had placed Reddy under suspension after an internal inquiry examined material, including CCTV footage, and found the allegations fit for further proceedings. The Academy’s inquiry and the criminal investigation have continued separately.

Tuesday’s bail order ends Reddy’s judicial custody of about 67 days, but the case against him remains open and subject to further police and court proceedings.