Karimnagar: An inspector of the CID, Hyderabad, was booked on Saturday for allegedly harassing a woman employee of the agriculture department by sending abusive messages and obscene photos over WhatsApp and making objectionable calls.
Karimnagar II Town police said the accused, inspector K. Dayakar Reddy, 55, was the officer investigating the illegal financial business of Asst SI B. Mohan Reddy. The complaint, 41, is a sister-in-law of Mohan Reddy, and had lost her husband.
A case was registered against him under Sections 354 A and D and 506 of the IPC. According to her, the inspector was harassing her after she mentioned her phone number as part of the investigations into the Mohan Reddy scam, three months ago. She alleged that he had been sending objectionable messages from his two phone numbers to her mobile phone.
Inspector harassed woman
The complainant is the sister of Assistant SI B. Mohan Reddy who is allegedly involved in economic offences which Mr Dayakar is probing.
The complainant also alleged that he professed his love for her, and also said, “I have a property in Hyderabad” and “you get transferred here so that we can live together (sic).”
She alleged that he had asked her to prepare “something special for him” when he arrives in Karimnagar to investigate case.
She stated that he had threatened her with dire consequence if she dared to reveal his messages to the police, when she told him that she would lodge a complaint. The CID is probing the illegal financing business of Mohan Reddy, an ASI of Choppandi, and his atrocities on his borrowers. He is accused of accumulating property worth several hundreds of crores by lending money to employees, merchants and farmers at exorbitant rates of interest.
The scam came to light with the suicide of a school manager in Karimnagar on October 29 last.
