Hyderabad/Patna, Feb. 24 -- The court of the additional chief judicial magistrate in Patna on Monday directed the Andhra Pradesh police not to take any coercive action for 30 days against 2005-batch IPS officer M Sunil Kumar Naik in connection with an alleged custodial torture case of 2021.

Naik, currently posted as inspector general (IG), home guards and fire services in Bihar, was produced before the court by a team of Andhra Pradesh CID officials who had sought a prisoner transit remand to take him to Guntur. The court, however, declined to grant transit remand, citing procedural lapses.

Speaking to reporters outside the court premises, Naik's counsel Amit Srivastava claimed that the Andhra Pradesh police failed to produce a valid ar...