On Saturday, a CID inspector from Hyderabad, was booked for allegedly harassing a woman working in the agriculture department by her sending abusive messages and obscene photos over WhatsApp and making objectionable calls.

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The Deccan Chronicle reported that the accused, Inspector K Dayakar Reddy, 55, was the officer investigating the illegal financial business of Asst SI B Mohan Reddy. The woman employee is a sister-in-law of Mohan Reddy. The 41-year-old had lost her husband.

According to the daily's report, a case was registered against him under Sections 354 A and D and 506 of the IPC. The complainant, Dayakar Reddy allegedly kept harassing her after he had got her number as part of the investigation he was conducting. She has alleged that he sent her obscene texts and photos. He also reportedly told her he loved her and said, "I have a property in Hyderabad” and “you get transferred here so that we can live together (sic).”

The woman alleged that he threatened her with dire consequences if she went to the police. She said that he had asked her to prepare “something special for him” when he arrives in Karimnagar to investigate case.

The daily reported that the CID is probing the illegal financing business of Mohan Reddy, an ASI of Choppandi who has been accused of accumulating property worth hundreds of crores by lending money to employees, merchants and farmers at exorbitant rates of interest. Mohan Reddy's scam was discovered when a school manager committed suicide on October 29, 2015.