LUCKNOW/DEORIA, Dec 10: Former IPS officer Amitabh Thakur was arrested on Wednesday in connection with an alleged fraud and forgery case related to the allotment of an industrial plot in Deoria district in 1999 and was later remanded to 14 days’ judicial custody by a court, officials said.

Thakur was arrested in the early hours from the Maholi border in Sitapur district after being taken into custody by police in Shahjahanpur while he was travelling by train from Lucknow to Delhi, they said.

According to the police, Thakur allegedly misused his position as the then superintendent of police (SP) of Deoria to facilitate the allotment of an industrial plot by the District Industries Centre (DIC) in the name of his wife, Nutan Thakur, using forged documents, false names and addresses. The pl

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