IPS officer files police complaint against Mulayam

An IG-rank officer on Saturday filed a complaint with the police against Mulayam Singh Yadav, alleging that the Samajwadi Party chief threatened him with dire consequences if he does not mend his ways. While Mulayam was not immediately available for comments, an SP leader dismissed the charge.

According to the wife of IPS officer Amitabh Thakur, the provocation behind the threat could have been the FIR lodged by her against state Mines minister Gayatri Prajapati. Thakur, who has been assisting his wife and RTI activist Nutan Thakur in raising social issues, released an audio tape on Friday purportedly containing the voice of the SP chief.

“I felt I should take a stand. Therefore, I gave a complaint against SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav,” Thakur, IG Civil Defence, said. “At around 4.45 pm, a phone came from Mulayam Singh’s residence and he talked to me. 

He told me that whatever had happened in <g data-gr-id="15">Jasrana</g>, Firozabad, where I had been assaulted by one of his relative and an MLA in 2006, much harsher things will happen to me if I don’t ‘mend my ways’,” Thakur said on Friday. Senior Superintendent of Police, Lucknow, Rajesh Pandey said the matter will be probed to find out the genuineness of the audio tape released by Thakur.