Andhra Police arrests Bihar IG in connection with alleged custodial torture of TDP leader

PATNA: (Feb 23) An IG rank officer in Bihar was on Monday arrested by Andhra Pradesh Police in connection with a five-year-old case of alleged custodial torture of a senior Telugu Desam Party leader.

Currently posted as the IG, Fire and Homeguards, Sunil Kumar Naik is a 2005 batch IPS officer, who had earlier been in Andhra Pradesh a few years ago on an inter-cadre deputation, was picked up from his official residence here.

The case in which he has been named pertains to an alleged incident of 2021 in Guntur district of the southern state, where Naik was then serving as a DIG(CID).