UP Government suspends the IPS officer who complained against Mulayam Singh

A press release issued late on Monday night said  Thakur, the state's Inspector General, Civil Defence, stood suspended from his post.

He has  been "found guilty of arbitrariness, indiscipline, anti-government stance, ignoring the instructions of High Court, ignorance to the obligations and duties associated with his post."

Media reports quoted Thakur as denying that he has broken any service rule.

"Everyone knows the reason behind this suspension... I was not criticising the government, but just doing my duty," Mr Thakur said.

Thakur had  travelled to Delhi on Monday to ask the Centre for protection for him and his wife, Nutan Thakur, an activist who has filed a corruption case against a UP minister. 

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.

Mulayam Singh is a former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh while his son Akhilesh is now the state's chief minister.

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.