Cops Assault Case- Activist Nutan Thakur, Wife Of Ex-IPS Amitabh Thakur Granted Anticipatory Bail By Lucknow Court

Social Activist-Advocate Nutan Thakur, the wife of ex-IPS Officer Amitabh Thakur, was granted Anticipatory Bail by a Lucknow Court on Friday in a case registered against her for allegedly assaulting cops and obstructing government work when police personnel went to arrest her husband Thakur on charges of 'abetting' suicide of rape victim, her friend.She has been booked under Sections 186,189, 224, 225, 323,353,427 IPC in an FIR registered on August 27, 2021, and it has been alleged that when the police team had come over to the residence of the applicant to arrest/ apprehend her Husband, they both became aggressive and tried to resist the arrest.It has also been alleged that during the course, they injured the cops and also caused damage to the nameplate and whistle cord of the informant and damaged spectacles of the SHO.On the other hand, in her Anticipatory Bail application, Nutan Thakur, through her Advocate Yashab Husain Rizvi has submitted that the FIR in question has been registered in a clandestine manner, and it is intended to falsely implicate her, as well as her husband for their bonafide actions in the recent past.The application further states that they are being targeted for their actions aimed at ensuring transparency and accountability of highly placed officers of the State, whose improprieties are impacting public interest at large.It was argued before the Court that the police team had forcibly entered their house, and had dragged Mr. Thakur out of his house, beating him with fist-blows while constantly hurling abuses on him. It was also submitted that they kept on asking the reason for his arrest and sought a copy of the FIR, but the same was refused and the police took away Thakur forcibly dumping him in the SUV of the Police.Considering the facts and noting that Mrs. Thakur is not a flight risk and that she has given an assurance to co-operate in the investigation, the Additional Sessions Judge PM Tripathi granted her anticipatory Bail.Background of the matterHours after ex-IPS Officer Amitabh Thakur was arrested on the charges of abetting the suicide of a woman and her friend who recently set themselves on fire outside the Supreme Court and succumbed to burn injuries days later, a Lucknow Court sent him to Judicial Custody till September 9.The 24-year-old woman, who was allegedly raped by Bahujan Samaj Party MP Atul Rai in 2019, succumbed to burn injuries on August 24. Her male friend, a 27-year-old Delhi University graduate, had died during treatment last week.The woman had alleged that Thakur had helped the MP Rai in harassing and threatening her to withdraw her case or weaken it.Subsequent to this incident, the Uttar Pradesh government had formed a two-member probe panel to look into the allegations made by the woman. This panel was led by DGP (Police Recruitment and Promotion Board) Raj Kumar Vishwakarma and comprising Additional D-G (Women Power Line) Neera Rawat.Conducting an inquiry into the matter, the panel, on Friday, submitted its report to the state government and based on the same, the Lucknow police lodged an FIR against Thakur and Rai and subsequently arrested Thakur on charges of Abetting the woman's suicide. Rai is already lodged in Naini Jail, Prayagraj.The FIR against Thakur also contains charges under Sections 167 (public servant framing an incorrect document with intent to cause injury), 195-A (threatening any person to false evidence), 218 (public servant framing incorrect record, etc), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of IPC.The Director-General of Police Mukul Goel in a statement on Friday said, ''In connection with the self-immolation attempt by the victim and her aide before the Supreme Court on August 16, the government had constituted an inquiry committee which in its interim investigation report, found BSP MP from Ghosi, Atul Rai and Amitabh Thakur prima facie guilty of abetting the victim and her associate witness to commit suicide and of other charges and also recommended registering a case against them.''

Cops Assault Case- Activist Nutan Thakur, Wife Of Ex-IPS Amitabh Thakur Granted Anticipatory Bail By Lucknow Court

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