Lucknow : More trouble for suspended IPS officer Amitabh Thakur as on Friday the Uttar Pradesh police rejected his plea for an FIR against Mulayam Singh Yadav. The senior IPS officer said he would now move his application before a designated court.
Sometime back, the officer had filed a complaint with Hazratgunj police station in Lucknow following being allegedly threatened for dire consequences by the Samajwadi Party supremo. Thakur had stirred a political storm by releasing the text and audio of the purported phone conversation with Yadav.
Thakur had asked the Lucknow city police to file an FIR against Yadav following his written complaint. A letter written by inspector of Hazratganj police station Vijay Mal Singh stated that the complaint presented by Thakur about Yadav was enquired. It was found that the allegations were baseless. Hence it was being rejected. The letter was handed over to Thakur’s wife Nutan at their residence.
It ‘seems to have been drawn superficially, quite visibly under pressure,’ Thakur alleged. The state government suspended Thakur on July 13, hours after he approached the Union Home Ministry seeking a CBI probe into the rape case slapped against him. Thakur, who has ever since been locked in a tussle with the state government, was served a 200-page charge sheet and a vigilance inquiry was initiated against him.
