bengaluru as a mark of protest against the promotion of his batchmate to the dgp rank and for withholding his promotion senior ips officer p ravindranath on wednesday evening submitted his resignation letter to state police chief praveen soodconfirming this ravindranath told toi that his batchmate t suneel kumar was promoted just before his retirement which is illegal according to him suneel kumar is junior to himdespite there being an order from the supreme court and the central administrative tribunal cat my promotion has been deliberately withheld there are some people in the police department and in political circles who are against me theres no point in working with dissatisfaction im a doctor and ill pursue my career he addedthe 1989batch karnataka cadre ips officer who had three years of service left has quit thrice in the last 12 yearsthe additional director general of police adgp rank officer had made headlines in 2014 when he was caught clicking pictures of two young women in a coffee shop in bengaluru one of the women a media professional filed a police complaint and a case of assault with intent to outrage the modesty of the woman and criminal intimidation was registered against him police had seized the cellphone and sent it for forensic analysis as part of investigation he had resigned at that point alleging that the then police commissioner raghavendra auradkar had framed him but he later withdrew the resignationearlier in 2008 ravindranath who was inspector general of police igp had resigned protesting highhandedness of his senior colleague and then adgp administration be umapathy ravindranath had alleged that umapathy had rejected his leave application when there was a medical emergency at home however he withdrew his resignation letteron wednesday amar kumar pandey and t suneel kumar were promoted to the dgp rank the order was issued after office hours of the five ips officers from 1989 batch of karnataka cadre the senior most ps sandhu had been earlier promoted to the dgp rank pandey was second in seniority followed by ravindranath sanjay sahu who has since taken voluntary retirement and suneel kumar