Patna: The controversial IPS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre, Amitabh Thakur, on Friday accused the ground crew of a private airlines and CISF personnel of misbehaving with him while he alighted from a flight at Jayaprakash Narayan International Airport here in the morning.
Thakur told TOI over phone that he was forcibly asked to show his boarding pass by the ground crew.
“I told the ground crew that there was no reason to show boarding pass as I was getting down from the flight. However, they misbehaved with me and later called CISF personnel as well. Even CISF officers misbehaved with me,” Thakur alleged.
The IPS officer, who had accused former UP chief minister and Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav of threatening him over phone in 2015, said a CISF officer was not wearing his name badge on his uniform. “When I asked him about it, he replied that it was none of my concern,” said Thakur, who is presently posted as IG, civil defence in Uttar Pradesh.
Thakur said he reached Patna from Lucknow for an official work at around 9.10am, but could leave the airport at 9.40am due to the incident.
A senior CISF officer privy to the entire incident told TOI, on the condition of anonymity, that Thakur was travelling on a connecting flight to Kolkata from Lucknow via Patna. “A routine reconciliation process of passengers alighting from an aircraft at Patna and those inside was underway after the gates of the flight opened following landing. It’s a security measure. Thakur refused to show his boarding pass and asked to show him rules and regulations about it. The airlines crew even asked him just to tell his name, so that they could get it matched with the passenger list. But he refused, again,” the CISF official said, adding no one knew that he was an IPS officer.
28/12/19 Debashish Karmakar/Times of India
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Thakur told TOI over phone that he was forcibly asked to show his boarding pass by the ground crew.
“I told the ground crew that there was no reason to show boarding pass as I was getting down from the flight. However, they misbehaved with me and later called CISF personnel as well. Even CISF officers misbehaved with me,” Thakur alleged.
The IPS officer, who had accused former UP chief minister and Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav of threatening him over phone in 2015, said a CISF officer was not wearing his name badge on his uniform. “When I asked him about it, he replied that it was none of my concern,” said Thakur, who is presently posted as IG, civil defence in Uttar Pradesh.
Thakur said he reached Patna from Lucknow for an official work at around 9.10am, but could leave the airport at 9.40am due to the incident.
A senior CISF officer privy to the entire incident told TOI, on the condition of anonymity, that Thakur was travelling on a connecting flight to Kolkata from Lucknow via Patna. “A routine reconciliation process of passengers alighting from an aircraft at Patna and those inside was underway after the gates of the flight opened following landing. It’s a security measure. Thakur refused to show his boarding pass and asked to show him rules and regulations about it. The airlines crew even asked him just to tell his name, so that they could get it matched with the passenger list. But he refused, again,” the CISF official said, adding no one knew that he was an IPS officer.
28/12/19 Debashish Karmakar/Times of India
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