HC gives time to UP govt to reply to Amitabh Thakur's petition

The Allahabad High Court granted a week's time to the Advocate General to file counter affidavit in the matter of restricting IPS officer Amitabh Thakur from going to Mathura where violence had taken place during an anti-encroachment drive at Jawahar Park on June 2.
The Lucknow bench of Justice Amreshwar Pratap Sahi and Justice Shamsher Bahadur Singh on June 22 passed the order on the petition filed by Thakur challenging the UP DGP order restricting him from going to Mathura.
The petitioner's counsel submitted that every citizen has a fundamental right to move freely to any place in India and this cannot be curtailed as a public servant.

AG Vijay Bahadur Singh, who appeared for the state government, opposed it contending that Amitabh wanted to go to Mathura merely to create a controversy.
On the request of AG, the court granted him a week's time to file a counter affidavit and listed the case on July 6.
Amitabha Thakur are at loggerheads with the state government since long after he accused ruling Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav of having threatened him over phone, a charge denied by Yadav.