Roopa IPS writes letter protesting felicitation of her prisons nemesis, HNS Rao

“Here was a man who wanted to scuttle powers and functions of IPS Cadre post,” Roopa said in her letter.

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In the latest episode of friction between Inspector General of Police (former Deputy Inspector General Prisons) Roopa and ex-DIG Prisons HN Satyanarayana Rao, Roopa has written a letter protesting the Karnataka IPS Association’s decision to give Satyanarayana Rao an honourable farewell.

The IPS (Karnataka) Association has organised a farewell function to honour six IPS officers who recently retired, including Satyanarayana, on Wednesday evening.

In her letter, Roopa has said, “I hereby register my protest to giving farewell to HNS RAO, not for personal reasons but for the general cause of the IPS as such. Here was a man who wanted to scuttle powers and functions of IPS Cadre post.”

She later adds, “On one hand we keep saying in our IPS forums, that we should protect our interests, show leadership etc. On the other hand he is being felicitated even with his ANTI-IPS stand.”

Roopa, who had blown the lid off an alleged system where VIP prisoners like VK Sasikala used to get special treatment at the Parappana Agrahara jail, was sued for defamation by her immediate senior Satyanarayana for Rs 20 crore recently.

The then DIG Prisons’ allegation that Sasikala bribed her way into gaming the system, has angered her supervising officer Satyanarayana Rao. He had termed her nine-point-report to the government as “false”, and “baseless”.

Read: In Karnataka, it's DG vs DIG over Sasikala's 'special treatment' in prison

Soon after the controversy broke, she was shunted out of her position and was transferred to traffic and road safety department, while Satyanarayana was allowed to retire in his position with some days left in his tenure.

You can read the full letter here: