Once considered a hot favorite of former Andhra CM (late) Y S Rajasekhar Reddy, Senior IPS officer Madireddy Pratap (IPS:1990:AP), has had to pay for his loose remarks over his sudden transfer.
Pratap was recently transferred from the post of APSRTC chairman to Andhra Pradesh Special Police Battalion. But within three days, he was shunted to the General Administration Department.
What is worse, he was served with a show-cause notice for addressing a press conference on July 13, where certain comments made by him were allegedly in clear violation of IAS (Conduct) Rules, 1968.
Pratap had told the media that he was transferred abruptly and the GO was issued after midnight.
The officer also tried to show that he was close to the YSR family.“…on the night of my transfer, Vijayamma (Jagan’s mother) had sent me a cake…But the next morning, I came to know that I was transferred,” he said.
But what angered chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy more, was his comments about other officers, who had to face the CBI investigation on issues of integrity.
“Several officers in the YSR government were questioned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI),
but I was not. This was because, I was functioning independently and the CBI knew that I was
a man of integrity,” he said.
