UP issues charge-sheet against IPS officer Amitabh Thakur

Suspended IPS officer Amitabh Thakur, who had lodged a complaint against SP Chief Mulayam Singh Yadav for allegedly threatening him, was on Wednesday slapped with a charge-sheet by UP government accusing him of dereliction of duty, anti-establishment approach and flouting court orders. The officer, who has been charged with indiscipline and indulging in anti-government activities, said he would submit his reply "on each of the 15 counts soon". Thakur said he would move court in a day or two seeking a CBI inquiry into all developments after his wife Nutan Thakur, who is an RTI activist, lodged a complaint against mining minister Gayatri Prasad Prajapati to the Lokayukta.

Thakur was suspended on July 13 by the Akhilesh Yadav government hours after he had approached the Union Home Ministry in Delhi seeking a CBI probe into the rape charges filed against him after he lodged a complaint against Mulayam for allegedly threatening him.

The state home department prepared the charge sheet and handed it over to Director General, Civil Defence, Kamlendra Prasad, an official spokesman said on Wednesday.