Firebrand police officer D Roopa Moudgil, who shot into the limelight with her report on alleged preferential treatment to former AIADMK chief Sasikala in jail on Saturday heaped praise on BJP Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy.

"The versatile person without whose complaint, probably, the lady (who enjoyed perks and privileges in Bengaluru prison as exposed by me) wouldn't have landed in prison in the first place. Sir, u inspire!," D Roopa said in a tweet along with a selfie.

In another tweet, she said that his activism against corruption and black money should be inspiring even for his enemies.

In her four-page report, she had also alleged that a special kitchen was functioning in the jail for Sasikala, where she was lodged since February 15, 2017 to serve her sentence.

She was later transferred along with HN Sathyanarayana Rao, the then DGP (Prisons).

The versatile person without whose complaint, probably, the lady(who enjoyed perks and privileges in Bengaluru prison as exposed by me) wouldn't have landed in prison in the first place. Sir, u inspire! .@Swamy39 pic.twitter.com/aahRlHUu1w May 5, 2018

A Twitter user identifying himself as Ashwin Kumaraswamy asked the officer, " Hasn’t he aligned with the same corrupt politicians? Hasn’t he aligned with corrupt within BJP? If he was against corruption why hasn’t he spoken about Reddy Bros clout in BJP?,"

Responding to him, she said, "I could have very well challenged my transfer order after I gave jail report. The transfer was within one year which is against the fixed tenure of one year as per Karnataka Police Act. My decision not to challenge transfer or selfie wid truly inspiring people- both not political."

In 1996, Subramanian Swamy, the erstwhile Janata Party chief, had filed a case against Jayalalithaa alleging that during her tenure as Tamil Nadu Chief Minister from 1991 to 1996, she amassed properties worth Rs 66.65 crore disproportionate to her known sources of income. In 1997, the prosecution had launched against Jayalalithaa, her close friend Sasikala and two others in a Chennai Court in DA case. The Supreme Court, In February 2017, convicted Sasikala and her two relatives, VN Sudhakaran and Elavarasi by restoring the trial court verdict in toto directing them to serve the remaining jail term.

Moudgil first came into the limelight when as Dharwad SP she arrested the then Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Uma Bharti after rushing to Bhopal with her team.

Bharti was arrested in connection with a 10-year-old non-bailable criminal case in which she was accused of hoisting the national flag at Dharwad's communally sensitive Idgah Maidan on Independence Day.

Moudgil's report as DIG(Prisons) laying bare alleged irregularities in the Parapana Agrahara Central Jail, including preferential treatment to Sasikala, had stirred a hornet's nest.

Sasikala is in jail serving her four-year-term in a disproportionate assets case.