Overview
- Thakur was detained from a train by Shahjahanpur police and arrested near the Maholi border in Sitapur before being produced in a Deoria court that ordered 14 days' judicial custody.
- The case stems from a September 12 FIR in Lucknow’s Talkatora police station invoking IPC sections 419, 420, 467, 468, 471, 34 and 120B.
- Investigators allege Thakur used his post as Deoria SP in 1999 to secure an industrial plot in his wife Nutan Thakur’s name using forged documents, a fake identity and a false Bihar address, with the plot later sold.
- The SIT reports collecting documentary records in Deoria, verifying identities and addresses in Bihar, and recording witness statements before concluding there was enough to act.
- Complainant Sanjay Sharma initiated the case, Nutan Thakur calls it a civil dispute lodged under pressure, and media reports say the Thakurs’ X accounts have been suspended.