The Lucknow Police Wednesday arrested former IPS officer Amitabh Thakur in connection with an alleged case of fraud and cheating to secure an industrial plot in Deoria in 1999.

Officials said Thakur allegedly misused his authority as Superintendent of Police, Deoria, to secure the plot in his wife’s name through forged IDs and fake documents, which was later sold for a profit.

The case is currently being investigated by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Lucknow Police. “Based on the evidence collected during the probe, we arrested Amitabh Thakur from Sitapur. He will be produced before the Deoria court as the incident took place there,” said Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Lucknow, Vishwajeet Srivastava.

The FIR against Thakur and others was registered at Talkatora police

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