A former senior Uttar Pradesh police officer was today arrested in a dramatic fashion in Lucknow in an abetment-to-suicide case shortly after he proposed the name of his proposed political party that, he said, will contest the 2022 state assembly polls. Forcibly retired by the Union Home Ministry in March this year for "non-performance", IPS officer Amitabh Thakur was shoved into a department jeep at his residence in the state capital even as he protested and resisted being taken away -- all in full public view.
