Suspended IPS officer Amitabh Thakur and his social activist wife Dr Nutan Thakur once again found themselves at thge worng end of the stick, when a case was registered against them at the Kotwali police station in Rampur for ‘instigating people against minister Azam Khan’.
Dr Nutan Thakur confirmed through a release on Tuesday that the Kotwali police registsred a case vased on a complaint by Pakka Bagh resident Sonu Kathetia on Monday. In the complaint besides teh Thakur couple, activist from Rampur, Danish Khan was also named. The trio were charged with instigating people against Khan in the name of religion and caste.
The FIR (57/2016) registered under section 153A IPC) says that Thakur said that Azam Khan was trying to demolish the Valmiki basti because they are low caste Hindus and would never have touched them if they were Muslims.
The IPS officer is alleged to have said that Khan wanted to get every Valmiki basti of Rampur demolished and will get every Hindu speaking against him jailed. He also suggested that if the local inhabitants did not unite themselves, Khan would not allow any Valmiki to live in Rampur.
Dr Nutan Thakur said that as per the FIR, she and Danish supported her husband’s statements. It has also been mentione d that the people got agitated against Khan thereby instigating people against Khan and the UP government.
Dr Nutan Thakur further said that the FIR is based on completely concocted facts and exposed the extent to which Azam Khan was incessantly misusing government authority. Meanwhile, Amitabh Thakur claimed that in the petition filed challenging his suspension order of July 13, 2015, the lucknow bench of Central Administrative Tribunal on Tuesdaysought response from the Central and UP government within three weeks. The bench of Navneet Kumar and Jayati Chandra gave this order after hearing Thakur and the counsel for the two governments and fixed April 18 as the next date of hearing.