New Delhi: Andhra Pradesh Police Monday arrested IPS officer M. Sunil Kumar Naik from Patna in reference to the 2021 alleged custodial torture and assault of then Lok Sabha MP and now AP Deputy Speaker Ok. Raghurama Krishna Raju. Nonetheless, hours later, a Patna courtroom ordered his launch, junking the police’s transit remand plea.

An FIR was lodged within the case solely in 2024, after Raju stop Jagan Mohan Reddy’s YSRCP and joined the then opposition TDP, which went on to win the meeting polls that yr. Raju turned the Deputy Speaker within the newly elected Naidu-led authorities.

IPS Naik was serving because the Inspector Common (IG) of Hearth and Homeguards in Bihar on the time of his arrest. His lawyer Amit Srivastava instructed ThePrint, “Justice of the Peace has written for his launch from the custody. Grounds embrace no arrest warrant, no intimation to the competent courtroom for transit remand in regards to the arrest earlier than finishing up the arrest together with failure of the officer to submit the case diary.”

A 2005-batch IPS officer of Bihar cadre, Naik, was serving because the Andhra Pradesh Crime Department-Crime Investigation Division’s deputy inspector common and cyber crimes in-charge on an inter-state deputation in Might 2021, when Raju, then MP from Narasapuram, was arrested for alleged feedback selling enmity between teams, purportedly after derogatory feedback towards then-CM Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy.

Three years later, solely months after the TDP’s win, Raju lodged a police criticism towards ex-CM Jagan Reddy and the CID’s former extra director common of police P.V. Sunil Kumar and senior state police officer P.S.R. Anjaneyulu—who later turned the intelligence unit’s extra director common of police—amongst different officers.

Based mostly on his criticism, Guntur district police booked Reddy, Anjaneyulu, and Kumar in July 2024 beneath sections referring to public servants knowingly disobeying the regulation, widespread intention, and felony conspiracy.

In his criticism to the police, Raju charged that Sunil Kumar and Anjaneyulu, together with different subordinate officers, arrived on the CB-CID regional workplace in Guntur and beat him with a rubber belt and lathis. They allegedly didn’t permit him to take medicines regardless of a historical past of coronary heart illnesses.

Andhra Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu suspended former CB-CID chief Kumar in March 2025 for allegedly making a number of overseas visits with out prior authorities permission and deviating from accepted journey plans. His suspension has since been confirmed by the Residence Affairs Ministry and prolonged to June 2026, when he retires.

The state CID arrested Anjaneyulu in April 2025 in a separate case, referring to the wrongful confinement and harassment of a Mumbai-based actress.

Naik was arrested Monday, a month after a Guntur courtroom rejected his anticipatory bail. In his arguments, Naik’s counsel, on the time, contended that his position was restricted to conducting a preliminary inquiry complying with directions from his superior officers.

The criticism

Based mostly on Raju’s criticism, a police officer documented within the FIR, “Then sure cops, i.e., Mr P.V. Sunil Kumar IPS, the then DG of CBCID, together with Mr Seetharam Anjaneyulu IPS and different police subordinates got here into CBCID Workplace and beat him with rubber belt and lathis and even not allowed to take medicines in respect of his coronary heart ailment, with the affect of Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy, the then Chief Minister of AP.”

“They—realizing fairly properly that he has undergone a bypass surgical procedure to the guts—individuals sat on his chest utilized strain and thereby tried to kill him; in the meantime, his telephone was taken and crushed until he disclosed the password of such telephone. Later, he was shifted to Govt Common Hospital; the physician Prabhavathi, who handled him, has issued false medical certificates on the occasion of police officers,” the FIR additional acknowledged.

“Moreover, P.V. Sunil Kumar threatened him that he can be killed if he had been to criticise the then Chief Minister, Mr Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy. Aside from the acknowledged allegations, the complainant additionally famous so many severe, heinous nature allegations towards a number of individuals, that are required to be investigated by the suitable police authority.”

Again in December 2019, the MHA accepted Naik’s interstate deputation, citing his dad and mom’ well being points as grounds for private hardship. His tenure in Andhra Pradesh started in January 2020 and was initially accepted for 3 years, till January 2023.

Later, in July 2022, he sought a two-year extension from the personnel and coaching division. However the division rejected it, allegedly across the similar time that his title allegedly surfaced in reference to the case, investigators say. The Central Administrative Tribunal upheld the rejection and likewise directed him to return to his mother or father cadre in 2023, which he did.

Naik was summoned to seem earlier than the investigating officer twice in February and March 2025.

The investigators have alleged in courtroom that Naik, together with a CID officer of the extra superintendent of police-rank allowed miscreants into the CID workplace the place Raju stayed on the night time of 14 Might 2021. There, Raju was allegedly crushed “indiscriminately” on his foot with a lathi and a rubber bat after they tied his legs and instigated the assault, in what has been known as a “facilitated homicide try”. Arguing towards anticipatory bail to Naik, they cited “clinching proof” towards him.

(Edited by Madhurita Goswami)

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