Retired IPS Amitabh Thakur Arrested in Multi-Layered Plot Forgery Case Dating Back to 1999
Retired IPS Amitabh Thakur arrested for forging plot in wife’s name.
Lucknow Police executed a dramatic pre-dawn arrest on Wednesday, taking former 1992-batch IPS officer Amitabh Thakur into custody at 3:45 am near Maholi border in Sitapur district for orchestrating a sophisticated industrial plot allotment fraud in Deoria district dating back to 1999, when he was posted as Superintendent of Police.
Investigators allege that Thakur, leveraging the unchallenged authority of his uniform, pressured and manipulated officials of the District Industries Centre, Deoria, into illegally allotting a prime industrial plot in the name of his wife, social activist Nutan Thakur, through an elaborate web of forged documents, including applications bearing completely fictitious names, non-existent Bihar addresses, counterfeit affidavits, fabricated treasury challans and bogus transfer deeds.
The quarter-century-old scam surfaced only in September 2025 when Rajajipuram resident Sanjay Sharma lodged a detailed complaint, leading to immediate registration of an FIR under Sections 419, 420, 467, 468, 471, 34 and 120B of the erstwhile Indian Penal Code for cheating, forgery of valuable security, using forged documents as genuine and criminal conspiracy.
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A specially constituted Special Investigation Team, supervised by DCP West Vishwajeet Shrivastava, painstakingly retrieved original records from Deoria, conducted on-ground verification across Bihar that confirmed every listed address was fake, recorded statements of surviving witnesses and corroborated the misuse of official position, and finally zeroed in on Thakur’s location after weeks of technical and human surveillance.
Once celebrated for filing public-interest litigations against powerful politicians, the retired officer now faces transportation to Deoria for production before the competent court, with police stating the seized plot was later sold for substantial monetary gain, completing a fall from grace that has sent shockwaves through Uttar Pradesh’s police and activist circles alike.
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