Justice J. Sreenivas Rao of the Telangana High Court on Wednesday set aside a lower court order permitting the Cyberabad police to subject trainee IPS officer M. Uday Krishna Reddy to potency test in a case of sexual assault registered against him. 

The judge, however, said the direction will not stall the prosecution from filing an appropriate petition if necessity arose in the matter in accordance with law. The order was passed in a criminal petition filed by the trainee officer accused of stalking, harassing and sexually assaulting a co-trainee IPS officer at the national police academy where they were undergoing training. 

As part of the investigation into the allegations against Uday Krishna Reddy in the assault case, the investigators decided to subject him to potency test. They secured a direction from the Third Additional Junior Civil Judge-cum XXV Additional Judicial Magistrate of First Class at Rajendranagar to conduct potency test. 

Challenging this lower court order, the trainee IPS officer filed the criminal petition. The judge observed that the application filed by the prosecution in the case was not in consonances with the principles laid down in the verdicts of Madras and Karnataka High Courts in similar cases. The order also noted that another criminal petition filed by the trainee officer seeking to quash the First Information Report against him was pending for adjudication before the HC.