Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has downplayed the audio tape controversy involving his father and Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and a senior IPS officer Amitabh Thakur. Breaking his silence on the ongoing tussle between Mulayam Singh Yadav and Amitabh Thakur, Akhilesh on Monday said, "Mulayam Singh Yadav was only trying to make Amitabh Thakur understand the things."
Akhilesh added that Mulayam was only giving an advise to the IPS officer and nothing else even as the police officer claimed that the Samajwadi Party supremo threatened him.
Thakur and his wife on Monday morning met Home Ministry officials seeking a CBI probe into a rape case filed against him just hours after he had lodged a complaint against Mulayam for allegedly threatening him.
Thakur met Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) Anant Kumar Singh and sought central force protection for himself and his wife and social activist Nutan Thakur.
"Mulayam Singh Yadav had threatened me with dire consequences. So, today I have met the Additional Secretary and sought security for me and my wife by central forces," he said.
Thakur said a "false" rape case had been slapped against him after he lodged a complaint against the ruling SP supremo Yadav in Lucknow on July 10 for threatening him. "I want a CBI investigation into the rape charge against me," he said.
On July 11, an FIR was registered at Gomti Nagar police station in Uttar Pradesh capital Lucknow against Thakur under sections 376 (rape), 504 (intentional insult) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC, on the basis of an earlier complaint by a Ghaziabad-based woman. The IPS officer's wife has been named a co-accused in the FIR.
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