Central security agencies are assessing the threat to suspended IPS officer Amitabh Thakur and his social activist wife Nutan Thakur.
Some IB officials met me and Amitabh at our residence seeking information about our concerns regarding security and other threats that we perceive.
— Nutan Thakur, Social Activist
The couple, according to Nutan, suspected threats due to their social activities but it increased after state mining minister Gayatri Prajapati and Mulayam Singh Yadav case.
Allegedly, the UP government has been “deliberately denying” them protection after which Amitabh had met Home Ministry officials in Delhi.
The Uttar Pradesh government had suspended Thakur on July 13, hours after he approached the Union Home Ministry in New Delhi seeking a CBI probe into the rape case slapped against him.
Thakur had stirred a political storm by releasing the text and audio of the conversation purportedly carrying Mulayam’s voice.
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