IPS officer approaches HM on spat with Mulayam

 In the midst of his tussle with Mulayam Singh Yadav, senior IPS officer Amitabh Thakur on Monday approached the Union Home Ministry and sought a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the rape case filed against him after he lodged a complaint against the Samajwadi Party (SP) Chief for threatening him.

Thakur, an IG-rank officer, met Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) Anant Kumar Singh in Delhi and also sought central force protection for himself and his wife and social activist Nutan Thakur.

“Mulayam Singh Yadav had threatened me with dire consequences. So, today I have met the Additional Secretary and sought security for me and my wife by central forces,” he told reporters outside the North Block, housing the MHA.

Thakur said a “false” rape case had been slapped against him after he lodged a complaint against the ruling SP supremo in Lucknow on July 10 for threatening him. “I want a CBI investigation into the rape charge against me,” he said. Chief Minister of tUttar Pradesh, Akhilesh Yadav, who is Mulayam’s son, saw “nothing wrong” in his father “scolding” a senior IPS (Indian Police Service) officer in the state.

“When Mulayam Singh Yadav can scold the chief minister, there is nothing wrong in his scolding an official,” Akhilesh said to pointed questions by newspersons in Farrukhabad.

Another senior UP minister Azam Khan demanded that the charges of rape levelled against Thakur be probed thoroughly. “He has committed an immoral act and should not be spared,” Khan said in Jhansi.