diff --git a/src/v0/destinations/reddit/networkHandler.js b/src/v0/destinations/reddit/networkHandler.js
index e691255a26..7c9b32eaa4 100644
--- a/src/v0/destinations/reddit/networkHandler.js
+++ b/src/v0/destinations/reddit/networkHandler.js
@@ -1,10 +1,13 @@
-const { RetryableError } = require('@rudderstack/integrations-lib');
+const { RetryableError, TAG_NAMES, NetworkError } = require('@rudderstack/integrations-lib');
 const isString = require('lodash/isString');
 const { prepareProxyRequest, proxyRequest } = require('../../../adapters/network');
 const { isHttpStatusSuccess } = require('../../util/index');
 const { REFRESH_TOKEN } = require('../../../adapters/networkhandler/authConstants');
 
-const { processAxiosResponse } = require('../../../adapters/utils/networkUtils');
+const {
+  processAxiosResponse,
+  getDynamicErrorType,
+} = require('../../../adapters/utils/networkUtils');
 
 const redditRespHandler = (destResponse) => {
   const { status, response } = destResponse;
@@ -29,6 +32,14 @@ const redditRespHandler = (destResponse) => {
       authErrorCategory,
     );
   }
+  throw new NetworkError(
+    `${JSON.stringify(response)} during reddit response transformation`,
+    status,
+    {
+      [TAG_NAMES.ERROR_TYPE]: getDynamicErrorType(status),
+    },
+    destResponse,
+  );
 };
 const responseHandler = (responseParams) => {
   const { destinationResponse } = responseParams;
diff --git a/test/integrations/destinations/reddit/dataDelivery/business.ts b/test/integrations/destinations/reddit/dataDelivery/business.ts
index 2c4714ef13..b48004a2ed 100644
--- a/test/integrations/destinations/reddit/dataDelivery/business.ts
+++ b/test/integrations/destinations/reddit/dataDelivery/business.ts
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ export const testScenariosForV1API = [
         body: generateProxyV1Payload(
           {
             ...commonRequestParameters,
-            endpoint: 'https://dfareporting.googleapis.com/test_url_for_valid_request',
+            endpoint: 'https://ads-api.reddit.com/api/v2.0/conversions/events/a2_fsddXXXfsfd',
           },
           [generateMetadata(1)],
         ),
@@ -119,10 +119,62 @@ export const testScenariosForV1API = [
             response: [
               {
                 metadata: generateMetadata(1),
-                statusCode: 500,
+                statusCode: 200,
               },
             ],
-            status: 500,
+            status: 200,
+          },
+        },
+      },
+    },
+  },
+  {
+    id: 'reddit_v1_scenario_2',
+    name: 'reddit',
+    description:
+      '[Proxy v1 API] :: Test for a valid request with a failed 403 response from the destination',
+    scenario: 'Business',
+    feature: 'dataDelivery',
+    module: 'destination',
+    version: 'v1',
+    input: {
+      request: {
+        body: generateProxyV1Payload(
+          {
+            ...commonRequestParameters,
+            endpoint: 'https://ads-api.reddit.com/api/v2.0/conversions/events/403_event',
+          },
+          [generateMetadata(1)],
+        ),
+        method: 'POST',
+      },
+    },
+    output: {
+      response: {
+        status: 200,
+        body: {
+          output: {
+            message:
+              '{"success":false,"error":{"reason":"UNAUTHORIZED","explanation":"JSON error unexpected type number on field events event_metadata value"}} during reddit response transformation',
+            response: [
+              {
+                metadata: generateMetadata(1),
+                statusCode: 403,
+                error:
+                  '{"success":false,"error":{"reason":"UNAUTHORIZED","explanation":"JSON error unexpected type number on field events event_metadata value"}}',
+              },
+            ],
+            statTags: {
+              destType: 'REDDIT',
+              destinationId: 'default-destinationId',
+              errorCategory: 'network',
+              errorType: 'aborted',
+              feature: 'dataDelivery',
+              implementation: 'native',
+              module: 'destination',
+              workspaceId: 'default-workspaceId',
+            },
+            status: 403,
           },
         },
       },
diff --git a/test/integrations/destinations/reddit/network.ts b/test/integrations/destinations/reddit/network.ts
index 562c8e95ad..80c18c00a0 100644
--- a/test/integrations/destinations/reddit/network.ts
+++ b/test/integrations/destinations/reddit/network.ts
@@ -154,4 +154,60 @@ export const networkCallsData = [
       statusText: 'Unauthorized',
     },
   },
+  {
+    httpReq: {
+      url: 'https://ads-api.reddit.com/api/v2.0/conversions/events/403_event',
+      data: {
+        events: [
+          {
+            event_at: '2019-10-14T09:03:17.562Z',
+            event_type: {
+              tracking_type: 'Purchase',
+            },
+            user: {
+              aaid: 'c12d34889302d3c656b5699fa9190b51c50d6f62fce57e13bd56b503d66c487a',
+              email: 'ac144532d9e4efeab19475d9253a879173ea12a3d2238d1cb8a332a7b3a105f2',
+              external_id: '7b023241a3132b792a5a33915a5afb3133cbb1e13d72879689bf6504de3b036d',
+              ip_address: 'e80bd55a3834b7c2a34ade23c7ecb54d2a49838227080f50716151e765a619db',
+              user_agent:
+                'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/77.0.3865.90 Safari/537.36',
+              screen_dimensions: {},
+            },
+            event_metadata: {
+              item_count: 3,
+              products: [
+                {
+                  id: '123',
+                  name: 'Monopoly',
+                  category: 'Games',
+                },
+                {
+                  id: '345',
+                  name: 'UNO',
+                  category: 'Games',
+                },
+              ],
+            },
+          },
+        ],
+      },
+      params: { destination: 'reddit' },
+      headers: {
+        Authorization: 'Bearer dummyAccessToken',
+        'Content-Type': 'application/json',
+      },
+      method: 'POST',
+    },
+    httpRes: {
+      data: {
+        success: false,
+        error: {
+          reason: 'UNAUTHORIZED',
+          explanation: 'JSON error unexpected type number on field events event_metadata value',
+        },
+      },
+      status: 403,
+      statusText: 'Unauthorized',
+    },
+  },
 ];