RTI activist seeks probe into IPS officer Amitabh Thakur's assets

RTI activist Sanjay Sharma on Tuesday submitted a complaint to Uttar Pradesh Lokayukta N K Mehrotra accusing suspended IPS officer Amitabh Thakur and his wife of possessing assets disproportionate to their known sources of income.

"Sanjay Sharma has submitted 60-70 page complaint today mainly alleging that Thakur misused his position as IG and both he and his wife possessed properties disproportionate to their known sources of income," a Lokayukta office source said.

Mehrotra, when contacted, said he has not yet seen the complaint in detail and would initiate further action only after its investigation. Sharma said he has given the complaint on three points and requested for probe into the sources of income through which the couple bought massive properties.

"Prima facie it appears that both the husband and wife possess some 57,000 square feet of residential land which cannot be bought over by an honest public servant and so I have demanded that the sources of the income through which it has been acquired should also be probed," Sharma said.

"Their immovable properties should also be investigated," he said, adding he has also demanded a probe to see if any racket was going on through their NGOs since the woman who has levelled rape charges has claimed that she had been criminally assaulted on the promise of a job," he said.

Sharma, who has accused Thakur of misusing his office and position, said his complaints are based on the replies that he got to his RTI queries and also contain some points of those queries that remained unanswered.

"While Thakur claims transparency in public life in reality, he has double standards," Sharma added.