Amaravati, February 23 – The Andhra Pradesh Police arrested IPS officer Sunil Nayak in Bihar on Monday in connection with the alleged custodial torture of K Raghurama Krishna Raju, the current Deputy Speaker of the Andhra Pradesh Assembly, in 2021, when the YSRCP was in power.
Nayak, who had previously served as the Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of the Crime Investigation Department (CID) in Andhra Pradesh, was arrested by a police team from Andhra Pradesh. The Guntur district police confirmed the arrest.
He is being brought to Guntur on a transit warrant, where a case has been registered against him and others.
Nayak, an IPS officer of the Bihar cadre, had served in Andhra Pradesh on deputation.
After the change of government in 2024, Nayak returned to Bihar and is currently serving as Inspector General of the Fire Services Department.
Raghurama Krishna Raju, then a Member of Parliament, was arrested for allegedly making derogatory remarks against the then Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy. He had alleged that he was tortured in police custody.
After the TDP-led coalition came to power in 2024, a case was registered against Jagan Mohan Reddy and others based on a complaint by Raju.
In July 2024, the police registered an FIR against Jagan Mohan Reddy, three IPS officers, and others based on a complaint by Raju, who alleged that there was an attempt on his life during police custody.
The FIR was registered against the then CID chief P.V. Sunil Kumar, then Intelligence Chief Seetharamanjaneyulu, then Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy, Sunil Nayak, then Additional SP R. Vijaya Paul, then Superintendent of Government General Hospital Guntur, Dr Prabhavati, and others.
Last year, the police summoned Sunil Nayak for questioning in the case, but he did not appear.
Raju was elected to the Lok Sabha on a YSR Congress Party ticket from Narsapuram in 2019, but he later became a rebel.
He was arrested on May 14, 2021, at his residence in Hyderabad for speaking against the government and allegedly instigating communal unrest in the state.
Raju said that although he was recovering after cardiac surgery, he was neither medically examined nor produced before a court in Hyderabad. He alleged that he was bullied, physically pulled into a police vehicle, and forcibly taken to Guntur that night.
He alleged that he was kept in the CB CID office and there was an attempt on his life during police custody. He alleged that Sunil Kumar, Seetharamanjeyulu, and others beat him with a rubber belt and a lathi and did not allow him to take medicines.
The complainant said that despite knowing well that he had undergone bypass surgery, some persons sat on his chest and applied pressure, thereby attempting to kill him.
