HC tells EOW to finalise DA case against IPS officer in 10 weeks

The Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court (HC) on Friday directed the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) to finalise the disproportionate assets (DA) case against IPS officer Amitabh Thakur within 10 weeks.

In his petition, Thakur had said that the vigilance establishment had registered this case on September 16, 2015 at the Gomti Nagar Police Station here "under high-level pressure".

The case was transferred to the EOW in January 2016 on the orders of the high court.

The petitioner had also pleaded before the court that the EOW was keeping the investigation pending despite full cooperation by him, causing him huge harassment and mental torture.

The Additional Government Counsel on Friday told the court that the EOW officials had said they would finish the investigation in three months, after which the bench of Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Rajnish Kumar disposed of the petition directing EOW to finalise the case in 10 weeks.

The officer, considered upright and honest in the police establishment, had invited the ire of the then Samajwadi party (SP) government for lodging an FIR against Mulayam Singh Yadav for telephonically threatening him.

Soon after, a slew of cases were slapped on him, including two rape cases on different places on a single day. Those cases have since been quashed by the court after police found them to be fictitious.

--IANS

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