Three Indian Police Service (IPS) officers in Andhra Pradesh have been suspended for allegedly exploiting actor-model Kadambari Jethwani.

Jethwani had accused the officers of intimidating her and falsely imprisoning her for 40 days. Following her complaint, the Andhra Pradesh government took stringent action and suspended three officers.

According to the government order, (now) former Intelligence Chief P Sitharama Anjaneyulu (Director-General rank), former Vijayawada Police Commissioner Kanti Rana Tata (Inspector General rank), and then Deputy Commissioner of Police, Vijayawada, Vishal Gunni (Superintendent of Police), were suspended for falsely implicating the actress.

Jethwani had formally complained to NTR Police Commissioner S V Raja Sekhara Babu in August, alleging that YSR Congress party leader and film producer Vidyasagar had filed a fraud and extortion case against her in February.

Jethwani further alleged that senior police officers, in collusion with Vidyasagar, harassed her and her parents, arrested them, and took them from Mumbai to Vijayawada without any prior notice.

Jethwani said, “The police humiliated me and my elderly parents and illegally detained them, forcing my family to remain in judicial custody for over 40 days.”

The 28-year-old model and actress, born in Ahmedabad, said her father, Narendra Kumar, is a Merchant Navy officer and her mother, Asha, is a manager at the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). Subsequently, her family moved to Mumbai because of her mother’s job transfer.