LUCKNOW, Dec 10: Former IPS officer Amitabh Thakur was arrested from the Maholi border in Sitapur district in connection with an alleged fraud and forgery case related to the allotment of an industrial plot in Deoria district in 1999 and was later remanded to 14 days’ judicial custody by a court.
Thakur allegedly misused his position as the then superintendent of police of Deoria to facilitate the allotment of an industrial plot by the District Industries Centre in the name of his wife, Nutan Thakur, using forged documents, false names and addresses & the plot was later sold for alleged monetary gain.
An FIR was registered on September 12, under sections 419, 420, 467, 468, 471, 34 and 120B of the Indian Penal Code, following which a special investigation team was constituted by the DCP.
During the investigation, documentary evidence was collected from Deoria district, verification of the alleged false identities and addresses was carried out in Bihar, and statements of witnesses were recorded.
Thakur was produced before Chief Judicial Magistrate Manju Kumari in Deoria, who sent him to 14 days’ judicial custody.
More reports awaited.
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