Inspector-General of Police (Civil Defence) Amitabh Thakur, who filed a complaint against Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh for “threatening him” on the phone and who has been booked on rape charges, now fears a threat to himself and his family.
The FIR against Mr. Thakur and his activist-wife Nutan Thakur, named a conspirator, was filed at the Gomtinagar police station here on Saturday night on a complaint from a Ghaziabad woman.
A fabricated case, says IG
The rape complaint against Inspector-General of Police (Civil Defence) Amitabh Thakur and his wife Nutan (named a conspirator) was made on December 31 last. But the identity of the victim, who is alleged to have been raped by the IPS officer, is not known.
Describing the rape case as a “return gift” from Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh for “having dared to make public the threat [he had allegedly made on the phone] and having gone to the police station,” Mr. Thakur said he was falsely implicated in the rape case. “We have enough evidence to say that it is a concocted case,” he told The Hindu.
Mr. Thakur said he feared for “our security” and worried that many “more such fabricated cases may come up.” He would move the court in a “day or two” for a CBI probe into the charges against him because he did not have faith in the local police who did not accept the complaint against Mr. Mulayam Singh.
In her complaint, the woman alleged that she had gone to Mr. Thakur’s Gomtinagar residence on December 31 last in connection with a job. Ms. Thakur took her to a room for an interview; there, she was allegedly raped by the police officer. Before the FIR was filed, the woman and her husband were said to have visited the police headquarters to inform that the Gomtinagar station had refused to register her complaint filed on the same day.
This time round, the woman was sent to the station where a case was filed against Mr. Thakur and his wife. Incidentally, the case was filed on the day the IPS officer lodged a complaint against Mr. Mulayam Singh with the Hazratganj station.
Mr. Thakur said in his complaint that he received a call on Friday evening from Mr. Singh who threatened him. The duration of the call and the transcript of the conversation were also mentioned in the complaint. He said the phone number (0522-2235477) from which he received the call on his mobile phone at 16.43 hours Friday matched the one listed against Mr. Mulayam Singh’s name in the information diary of the State government.
The audio recording of the conversation was released to the media by Ms. Thakur. It went viral on social media.
According to reports, the controversy is the fallout of the Thakur couple’s crusade against Mining Minister Gayatri Prasad Prajapati, considered close to Mr. Mulayam Singh. Reports said Mr. Singh had not taken kindly to the FIR filed against Mr. Prajapati on a complaint by
