IPS accuses vigilance of framing false charges

LUCKNOW: Suspended IPS officer Amitabh Thakur on Saturday filed complaint at Vibhuti Khand police station against vigilance director Bhanu Pratap Singh, superintendednt of police, vigilance, G S Kanaujia, and other vigilance officers accusing them of “creating a false document” during an inquiry to build a case of disproportionate assets against him.
In the complaint, Thakur has said the Vigilance Establishment under Director Bhanu Pratap Singh arbitrarily and deliberately calculated the worth of his assets at Rs 2.16 crore. But, when the state government provided him a copy of his alleged assets at the directions of the Allahabad High Court, he found that 14 out of these 15 properties belong to his relatives and only one asset belongs to him. Yet, he said, these officers created a false report declaring others assets as his merely to please their political master.
Calling this a cognizable offence under various sections of the Indian Penal Code, Thakur sought the registration of FIR against those named in the complaint. Thakur also alleged the station officer in charge of the Vibhuti Khand police station refused to give him a receipt of the complaint. The suspended IPS officer later sent a registered letter to SSP Lucknow seeking the registration of FIR against the station officer.