Hyderabad, July 22 -- Trainee IPS officer M Uday Krishna Reddy, who was admitted to hospital on Monday after an alleged suicide attempt, did not consume any poisonous substance, doctors said on Tuesday, a day after he was booked for allegedly sexually harassing a fellow IPS probationer at the Sardar Vallabhbhai National Police Academy in Hyderabad.

Dr Ravi Shankar Reddy of Jayanthi Hospital, where the trainee officer is undergoing treatment, said medical examinations found no traces of poison in his body. Blood tests showed only the presence of alcohol.

"We believe he lost consciousness because he had not eaten food and had consumed alcohol beyond the permissible limit. There is no poison content anywhere in his body. The blood tests in...