High drama was witnessed today when vigilance department sleuths searched the house of suspended IG-rank officer Amitabh Thakur, who is locked in a tussle with SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, in a disproportionate assets case.
A member of the Uttar Pradesh vigilance department team was seen darting out of the residence with a sheaf of papers in his hands and being confronted by an angry Thakur.
Thakur wanted his documents to be returned, but the vigilance sleuth refused to do so.
Thakur last week registered a complaint at Vibhuti Khand police station seeking the registration of an FIR against the Vigilance Director and others for alleged misrepresentation of facts in their inquiry report against him.
The Vigilance Department had lodged an FIR against Thakur last month, charging him with possessing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.
He was suspended in July after he lodged a police complaint against Mulayam, accusing him of threatening him over the phone.
Thakur has filed a complaint with the police requesting to lodge an FIR against Mulayam alleging that the Samajwadi Party chief threatened him with dire consequences if he did not mend his ways.
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