Lucknow: Suspended IPS officer Amitabh Thakur's plea for a CBI probe into the rape allegations against him has been referred to DoPT by the Union Home Ministry.
According to his wife Nutan Thakur, an RTI activist, the MHA in a letter dated July 16 sent to Thakur stated that his "request was a subject matter pertaining to Department of Personnel and Training, which was CBI's administrative authority, hence, DoPT is requested to take action as deemed appropriate."
The contents of the letter were released to the media here by Nutan.
The Inspector-General rank officer had met Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs Anant Kumar Singh in New Delhi on July 13 and had sought a CBI probe into the rape case slapped against him.
The IPS officer has alleged that ever since his wife's Lokayukta complaint against state Mines Minister Gayatri Prasad Prajapati, they were facing all kinds of charges including "false" rape case and threat by Mulayam Singh Yadav on July 10.
Thakur was suspended on July 13 by the Uttar Pradesh government, hours after he had approached the Union Home Ministry in New Delhi.
The official was served a 200-page charge sheet and a vigilance inquiry has also been initiated against him.
Thakur stirred a political row by releasing the text and audio of the conversation purportedly carrying Mulayam's voice.
On Monday, Thakur sought time to meet Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav after submitting details of his immovable assets as directed by the state government.
Suspended on July 13, 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".
On July 11, an FIR was registered at Gomti Nagar police station in Lucknow against Thakur under sections 376 (rape), 504 (intentional insult) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC, on the basis of an earlier complaint by a Ghaziabad-based woman.
The IPS officer's wife has been named a co-accused in the FIR. Terming the allegation of rape as "completely false", the
senior IPS officer said as per the complaint against him, his wife had helped in the alleged crime and that it took place at his home.
"No wife will help her husband to rape a woman. Besides my children also live in my house which is very small. Let the
CBI probe the allegation," he said.
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