Hyderabad Police on Tuesday took IPS officer M. Uday Krishna Reddy into custody in a case relating to allegations of sexually harassing a woman batchmate at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy. Uday Krishna Reddy could not be traced when the police went to serve the notices at the two addresses he had given during the investigation. However, the accused trainee officer denied that he was absconding. A 30-year-old woman trainee officer alleged that Reddy harassed her between June 23 and July 10 while they were undergoing training at the academy. Reddy claimed in a purported handwritten suicide note that he and the woman trainee officer had been in a relationship for a year.