Amitabh Thakur meets Lokayukta

Responding to a complaint against him, suspended IPS officer Amitabh Thakur today met Lokayukta Justice (retd) N K Mehrotra and gave him details of five years of his annual property returns.
After presenting his property details, Thakur requested the Lokayukta that action should be taken against Sanjay Sharma, who gave a complaint against him, if his allegation was proved wrong.
"Sharma was dismissed from government service on charges of improper conduct towards his female coworkers etc. He seems to be making such allegations against me on other person's directions. If his allegations are proved wrong during enquiry, action should be taken against him under section 13(1) of the Lokayukta Act for willful and malicious false complaint," Thakur said.

Handing over a copy of the complaint, Justice Mehrotra gave him 15 days to submit his reply by August 6.
On July 21, RTI activist Sharma had submitted a complaint to Lokayukta accusing Thakur and his wife of possessing assets disproportionate to their known sources of income.
Sharma had submitted 60-70 page complaint alleging that Thakur misused his position as IG and both he and his wife possessed properties disproportionate to their known sources of income.

He had given the complaint on three points and sought a probe into the sources of income through which the couple bought massive properties.

"Prima facie, it appears that both the husband and wife possess some 57,000 sq ft of residential land which cannot be bought over by an honest public servant and so I have demanded that the sources of the income through which it has been acquired should also be probed," Sharma said.
"Their immovable properties should also be investigated," he said, adding he has also demanded a probe to see if any racket was going on through their NGOs since the woman who has levelled rape charges has claimed that she had been criminally assaulted on the promise of a job.

Sharma, who has accused Thakur of misusing his office and position, said his complaints are based on replies that he got to his RTI queries and also contain some points of those queries that remained unanswered.
The IPS officer was suspended on July 13 by the Uttar Pradesh government hours after he approached the Union Home Ministry in New Delhi seeking a CBI probe into the rape charges slapped against him. The rape charges came days after Thakur lodged a complaint against the SP chief for allegedly threatening him.
Thakur was served a 200-page charge sheet on July 15 charging him with dereliction of duty, arbitrariness and indiscipline, and he submitted a 30-page reply saying he was "not at fault".