Allahabad HC Issues Notice To SP Leader Mulayam Singh Yadav For Alleged Threats To IPS Officer

A notice has been issued to former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav by the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court regarding his alleged threats to IPS officer Amitabh Thakur some four years ago, reports Business Standard.

The order was passed by Justice Shashikant on a petition filed by Thakur. The next hearing in the case is due on 4 May.

Police had initially conducted an investigation into the allegation that Yadav had threatened Thakur over phone on 10 July 2015. A clean chit had been given to the former Samajwadi Party head in the investigation.

Thakur raised contentions against the final report in the court, and the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM), Lucknow also rejected it, with the latter directing authorities to register the matter as a complaint.

Next, the IPS officer filed a plea against the order of the CJM, arguing that the matter must be registered as a police case. He reasoned that the evidence substantiated a prima facie case against Yadav.

Thakur has asserted that Yadav had threatened him over a complaint filed by the former’s wife against a state minister at that time, Gayatri Prasad Prajapati.

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