UP Police files another FIR against former IPS officer Amitabh Thakur and his wife

Thakur was arrested from his residence in Lucknow on Friday on serious charges, including abetment of suicide of a rape victim and her friend in Delhi recently. 

New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh Police has filed another FIR against arrested former IPS officer Amitabh Thakur and his wife Nutun, who have now been booked for assaulting police and obstructing the government work. Thakur who was arrested from his residence in Lucknow on Friday (August 27, 2021) on serious charges, including abetment of suicide of a rape victim and her friend in Delhi recently, was seen in a video resisting arrest and trying to clamber onto the roof of the police vehicle outside his residence.  He was also heard saying that he will not go unless he is given a copy of the FIR and was then shoved into the vehicle.