IPS officer Amitabh Thakur found “not suitable” to continue, retired prematurely

New Delhi: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has ordered rapid voluntary retirement of 1992 batch-IPS officer Amitabh Thakur. The choice was communicated by the Uttar Pradesh authorities on Tuesday (March 23).

The discover was issued to the IPS officer by the Uttar Pradesh Home Department which stated that Thakur was “not suitable” to proceed his companies as a public servant. 

He was serving because the Joint Director (Civil Defence) and was to retire in June 2028.

“I received my retirement orders. The government does not need my service, Jai Hind,” Thakur stated in a tweet.

Thakur had run-ins each with the present BJP and former Samajwadi Party governments.

In 2016, Thakur had written twice to the Union Home Ministry, searching for a change in his cadre.

The officer had alleged that UP authorities officers have been treating him as a “sworn enemy” and cited risk to his life. He had expressed his incapability to proceed working within the prevailing situations and demanded that he be shifted out of the state. The Centre in January 2017 turned down his request.

Thakur was suspended on July 13, 2015, days after he had accused the then Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav of threatening him. 

He had made public an audio recording, by which the SP chief had allegedly threatened him. Thereafter, the state authorities initiated a Vigilance inquiry in opposition to him. 

Later, the Lucknow bench of the Central Administrative Tribunal stayed the suspension of Thakur and ordered his reinstatement with full wage with impact from October 11, 2015.

Amitabh Thakur is a 1992 batch Uttar Pradesh cadre Indian Police Service (IPS) officer and a social activist. He has served as a Superintendent of Police (SP) in ten districts of Uttar Pradesh, and as an Inspector General (IG) within the state’s Civil Defence division.

Two different officers, a 2002-batch DIG and an SP of the 2005 batch, have additionally been prematurely retired, UP Chief Secretary (Home) Awanish Kumar Awasthi stated.

Earlier within the day, the MHA knowledgeable the Lok Sabha that as many as 81,007 Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) and 15,904 Assam Rifles personnel have taken voluntary retirement and resigned between 2011 to March 1, 2021.

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