DGP F C Sharma has sought a report from the city Police Commissioner P Kalimuthu on alleged high-handedness of an IPS officer attached to Chengalpattu range. The officer had slapped a case against a Sub-Inspector of Police for detaining his nephew, a college student, in the Royapettah police station. The SI had detained the college student in the police station after the motorcycle in which he was riding hit a handicapped boy on Peters Road on March 3.

Sources said that soon after the details of the incident were published in The Indian Express dated March 9, titled `IPS officer slaps case against SI for detaining nephew', the DGP had asked the Commissioner to submit a report to him.

The IPS officer's nephew hit a 11-year-old handicapped boy Gopi on Peters Road while he was coming on his`unregistered' Yamaha motorcycle from the college. The boy returning from school with his mother, was admitted to Royapettah hospital for bleeding injuries and later discharged. A complaint was filed by the boy's mother against the college student after which a case was registered. An SI doing duty in front of the college nabbed the college student and detained him at the Royapettah police station. The motorcycle was handed over by the police to the Traffic Investigation unit at Shastri Nagar police station.

Soon after, the IPS officer came to the police station and is said to have created a ruckus for detaining his nephew in the police station and reportedly made the college student submit a complaint alleging assault by the SI. An FIR was registered against the SI under the Sections 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing injury) and 341 (punishment for wrongful restraint) of IPC. The IPS officer later took the college student with him in his car from the police station.

The IPS officer had demandedsuspension of the SI for detaining his nephew at the police station even after learning that the latter was related to him.It is learnt that the city police had prepared a report stating that the SI never assaulted the college student as claimed by the IPS officer and the allegations were false. It was further stated that a false case was filed against the SI by the college student with an intention to teach him a lesson.