• FIR lodged against Mulayam Singh Yadav on September 24, but police did not make it public • Court of CJM had ordered police to lodge FIR on September 16 • IPS officer Amitabh Thakur sat outside Hazratganj police station to protest inaction in the case • Amitabh had lodged a complaint against Mulayam for threatening him on phone on July 10

LUCKNOW: The Hazratganj police have lodged an FIR against Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav on charges of threatening IPS officer Amitabh Thakur . The case has been registered under IPC section 506 (criminal intimidation).

Interestingly, the FIR was registered on September 24 itself, but information was not made public.

It came to the fore on Thursday evening when police filed status report before the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate. The CJM Som Prabha Mishra had on September 16 directed the police to lodge complaint. However, when police refused to inform Amitabh about action taken on CJM order, he approached the high court, where state government lawyers gave assurance "If FIR has not been lodged as yet, it will be done forthwith".

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In the absence of any information, Amitabh sat outside Hazratganj police station to protest inaction in the case. Scores of lawyers and people from all walks of life also gathered in his support. The police refused to comment all day saying it will inform the status to the court.

Amitabh had lodged a complaint at Hazratganj police station against Mulayam for threatening him on phone on July 10. He said that he was threatened because his activist wife Nutan had lodged a complaint against a corrupt minister in state government. In retaliation, the UP government had suspended Amitabh on July 13, 2015, and slapped a 16 point chargesheet against him.

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Amitabh approached the CJM court, which on September 16 directed Lucknow police to lodge an FIR against Mulayam.

However, on the same day (September 16), after a 'quick' inquiry, on the recommendation the Vigilance department, the state government lodged an FIR against Amitabh under Prevention of Corruption Act for amassing assets beyond his known sources of income.