Hyderabad, July 21 -- A day after being relieved from the government service on voluntary retirement, ex-IPS officer Dr RS Praveen Kumar landed in a criminal case in Karimnagar district for his alleged pledge against Hindu gods in March this year.

Acting on a complaint filed by local advocate Bethi Mahender Reddy, Karimnagar munsif magistrate court on Wednesday issued orders to the Town III police to register a criminal case against RS Praveen Kumar.

The advocate alleged that the retired IPS officer had taken part in a programme in Peddapalli district in March this year, in which he had taken a pledge which degraded Hindu gods and goddesses.

Praveen Kumar, the 1995-batch IPS officer, had been the secretary of Telangana Social Welfare R...