Patna, February 23 An officer of the rank of Inspector General (IG) in Bihar was arrested by the Andhra Pradesh Police on Monday in connection with a five-year-old case of alleged custodial torture of a senior leader of the Telugu Desam Party.
Currently posted as the IG, Fire and Homeguards, Sunil Kumar Naik is a 2005 batch IPS officer who had previously served in Andhra Pradesh a few years ago on an inter-cadre deputation. He was picked up from his official residence here.
The case in which he has been named pertains to an alleged incident in 2021 in the Guntur district of the southern state, where Naik was then serving as a Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).
The complainant, K Raghu Rama Krishna Raju, who is currently the Deputy Speaker of the Andhra Pradesh legislative assembly, had alleged that he was arrested in connection with statements made against the then Chief Minister Jaganmohan Reddy, who heads the YSR Congress, now the main opposition party in the southern state.
According to Raju, who was then a Member of Parliament (MP) from Narasapuram, he was allegedly tortured while in custody. In 2024, after the TDP was voted back into power, he filed a case naming Naik and several other police officials.
The Andhra Pradesh police has moved a court here to obtain a transit remand, after which Naik will be taken to the southern state.
