Lucknow: In more trouble for suspended IPS officer Amitabh Thakur, vigilance department sleuths searched his premises on Tuesday in a disproportionate assets case against the IG-rank officer.
"The vigilance team is conducting 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 (Samajwadi Party supremo) Mulayam Singh Yadav," Thakur said.
Thakur had filed a complaint 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 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 and attached to the Director General of Police (DGP) headquarters.
Thakur alleged that Vigilance Department chief and his subordinates have prepared a list of properties owned by his parents, brother, wife and an organisation with which he was earlier attached to, and showed them as his assets.
He said neither he nor his relatives were given a chance to explain about the acquisition of those properties. Thakur maintained that it is a rule in any open inquiry, before declaring any property benami, Vigilance Department should give the owners and suspected beneficiary a chance to explain.
He claimed this was not done in order to implicate him in a hurried manner.
Vigilance team officials refused to divulge any details.
Thakur said the sleuths had refused to show their identity cards when he asked for the same and behaved like party workers.
(With PTI inputs)
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