High drama was witnessed on Tuesday when Vigilance Department sleuths searched the house of suspended IG-rank officer Amitabh Thakur, who is locked in a tussle with SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, in a disproportionate assets case.
A member of the Uttar Pradesh Vigilance Department team was seen darting out of the residence with a sheaf of papers in his hands and being confronted by an angry Thakur, a senior IPS officer. Thakur wanted his documents to be returned but the Vigilance sleuth refused to do so. “The Vigilance team is conducting a raid at my residence as Director Vigilance Bhanu Pratap Singh is working as a SP man. I am being harassed as I have lodged FIR against Mulayam Singh Yadav,” Thakur told reporters outside his Gomti Nagar house.
Thakur last week gave a complaint at Vibhuti Khand Police Station seeking registration of FIR against the Vigilance Director and others for alleged misrepresentation of facts in their inquiry report against him. The Vigilance Department had lodged an FIR against Thakur last month charging him with possessing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.
He was suspended in July after he lodged a police complaint against Mulayam, accusing him of threatening him over phone.