After creating a flutter in state bureaucracy by arresting senior Bihar cadre IPS officer Sunil Kumar Nayak (IPS:2005:BH), the Andhra Pradesh Police had to bite the dust when they tried to shift him to AP on transit remand. The jurisdictional court in Patna denied the transit remand when Nayak was produced in the court for it while expressing displeasure over the manner in which he was arrested.
The IPS officer was arrested by a team of AP police, led by Superintendent of Police (SP) AR Damodar, from his residence at Rajabanshi Nagar in Patna on Monday in connection with the alleged custodial torture case of former Narsapuram MP and current Deputy Speaker of the AP assembly K Raghu Rama Krishna Raju.
The court lashed out at the AP Police for not following the inter-state arrest procedure by not producing the arrest warrant and submitting the petition in the Telugu language without translating the documents into Hindi or English.
Not only this, but the court also reportedly directed the Andhra Police not to arrest the IPS officer for 30 days.
Nayak is currently posted as Inspector General (IG) of Bihar Fire Services.
It has been alleged that the AP Police carried out the operation in Patna without giving intimation to the local Shastri Nagar police, which expressed concern over the behaviour of the Andhra Police, as few of the police personnel allegedly came in plain clothes and did not mention their identity. The advocates also alleged that the A.P. Police detained the IPS officer’s mother in a room during the time of the arrest. They alleged that Nayak’s arrest was politically motivated.
According to sources, the AP Police questioned the IPS officer for several hours in connection with the case linked to a 2021 incident in Narsapuram in Guntur district, when the then YSR Congress MP, K Raghu Rama Krishna Raju, was arrested.
Nayak had gone to Andhra Pradesh on inter-state deputation in 2019 and was serving as DIG in the Crime Investigation Department (CID) there when it was alleged that the MP’s arrest was carried out at his behest and that Raju was subjected to physical assault while in custody.
Subsequently, Raju filed a complaint accusing then CID DIG Sunil Nayak of custodial torture, leading to Nayak being booked under Section 307 (attempt to murder) of the Indian Penal Code.
Nayak returned to his home cadre, Bihar, in 2024, after the formation of the Chandrababu Naidu government in AP.
Andhra Police reportedly issued multiple summons to Nayak to record his statement, but he did not respond following which the AP Police team reached Patna to arrest him on Monday after his bail was cancelled.
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