UP IPS officer takes his battle with Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam to Centre
"Me and my wife are going to Delhi to present our case before the Home Ministry. We will ask the Centre for security and for a CBI investigation," Amitabh Thakur, the police officer, said.
Reports said Thakur is expected to meet Union Home Ministry officials on Monday to request for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the issue.
The development comes after an FIR was filed by a Ghaziabad-based woman accusing Thakur of rape.
The 1992 batch IPS officer has accused the Samajwadi Party chief of conspiring against him as the rape charge came a day after he alleged that Mulayam had threatened him.
According to Thakur, Mulayam had asked him to "mend his ways" after his wife went to the Lokayukta, accusing the Uttar Pradesh Samajwadi Party government of corruption.
Thakur, who is now posted s inspector general (IG) Civil Defence (Lucknow), lodged his complaint at Hajratganj police station.
He had on Friday released an audio in which Mulayam Singh Yadav allegedly warned him to “mend ways” or “face the repeat of a 2006 incident” when the officer was allegedly assaulted by a party legislator in Jasrana area of Firozabad district.
Thakur and his social activist wife Nutan Thakur had lodged an FIR against Gayatri Prasad Prajapati, mining minister in Akhilesh Yadav government, along with many others, for trying to "frame" the couple in "false" cases of rape and other charges.
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