D Roopa, the DIG of Prisons who blew the whistle on the VVIP treatment given to AIADMK General Secretary Sasikala has stuck to her guns and has been hailed a local hero.

Roopa, who scored 43rd rank in her UPSC examinations in 2000, was ranked fifth in her batch at NPS Hyderabad, and was the sole officer allotted to the Karnataka cadre, India Today reports.

It seems political ranking and power doesn’t matter to Roopa, as long as she follows the book. As an SP in Madhya Pradesh, Roopa arrested the then Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh Uma Bharti after the court order in a rioting case.

As DCP of Bengaluru, she withdrew number of police personnel unauthorised to be attendants of VVIPs and politicians, the report stated, adding that when she was DCP City Armed Reserve, she withdrew a number of police vehicles that were being used in the cavalcade of former Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa without permit.

She isn’t one to mince her words. If you follow her Facebook page, she is a regular contributor to Kannada media, and has even appeared on news channels as a panellist. Recently, she was involved in a Twitter spat with Mysuru Kodagu MP Pratap Simha after four senior IPS officers went on central deputation.

Roopa is in the news for exposing the sham running in the Bengaluru Parappana Agrahara Central jail and remains defiant in the face of controversy.

In her report, she has mentioned how the Karnataka Director General of Prisons (DGP) Satyanarayana Rao was one of the officers on Sasikala's payroll who helped her avail special treatment- like a separate kitchen.

The report reads how Sasikala allegedly paid Rs 2 crore to jail officials for a 'comfortable stay'.

Quashing her report, DGP Rao lashed out against D Roopa and has asked for an explanation and evidences to back the allegations.