Senior Bihar IPS officer M Sunil Naik (IPS:2005:BH), who was recently in the news due to his arrest by Andhra Pradesh Police, has made a serious allegation against former Andhra MP and current Deputy Speaker of the State Assembly K Raghu Ramakrishna Raju (RRR).
Naik, who is currently posted as Inspector General (IG) of Bihar Fire Services, has accused RRR of blackmailing and threatening him to speak against former state Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy and suspended former Andhra CID chief P V Sunil Kumar (IPS:1993:AP) in the alleged custodial torture case of 2021.
The IPS officer took to social media platform X to allege that RRR himself had called him to blackmail him. “He sent a threatening message through my friend stating, ‘Speak against the former CM and P.V. Sunil Kumar—or you will be made an accused,” Naik says in his post.
Naik went on to say if the RRR call data records are made public, it will reveal how many people were pressured and influenced. Many were deliberately implicated in this case.
He alleged that he is being framed due to a conspiracy just because they think that tribals have no voice.
Naik alleged that Andhra police officials who had gone to his Patna residence to arrest him on Monday misbehaved with his mother when she stepped out.
He claimed that he has all the evidence and will place everything on record to ensure that those who insulted his mother answer for it before the law.
It needs to be mentioned here that after his arrest in Patna on Monday, a jurisdictional court expressed utter displeasure at the way he was arrested without caring for proper procedure and rejected his transit remand, pointing out serious procedural violations in the arrest process.
The court also directed that Sunil Naik should not be arrested for 30 days.
The case in which Naik was arrested is 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 Naik of custodial torture, leading to Nayak being booked under Section 307 (attempt to murder) of the Indian Penal Code.
Naik 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 Naik 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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