Lucknow court gives 20-day ultimatum to Mulayam Singh Yadav on giving voice sample in IPS threat case

The Samajwadi Party patriarch Muayam Singh Yadav’s troubles in a case related to allegedly threatening an IPS officer are far from over.  A CJM Court in Lucknow has directed Yadav to give his voice sample within 20 days or the questioned voice in the taped conversation will be deemed his voice.

Taking serious note of Yadav deliberately avoiding the investigating officer’s attempt to take his voice sample for forensic examination, the Chief Judicial Magistrate (First) A.P. Singh has served an ultimatum to the former Chief Minister giving him only 20 days to comply with the order or it will be deemed that taped conversation carry his voice.

The CJM passed the above order after the investigating officer Anil Kumar informed the court that Mulayam Singh Yadav was not co-operating with the investigation and deliberately avoiding to give voice sample.

Yadav had called up senior IPS Officer Amitabh Thakur on July 10 2015 and had threatened him to mend his ways or face consequences. In over nine-minute conversation with the IPS officer, Yadav had allegedly warned Thakur to remain in his limits.  

The SP leader was upset with Thakur opening a front with his son Akhilesh Yadav, who was then Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. The IPS officer had taped the entire conversation and released the tape to the media when his FIR was not lodged at the Hazratganj Police Station. The call was made from Mulayam’s 5, Vikramaditya Marg residence in Lucknow, which he had vacated last month after Supreme Court order.

Failed to get his FIR lodged, the IPS officer had filed a petition and the court had directed the police to lodge a case against Yadav and investigate. The court had also directed the investigating officer to take Yadav’s voice sample to match the voice with the conversation taped by the petitioner.

But since 2016, Yadav and his staff thwarted several attempts by the investigating officer to receive the court notice at his Lucknow and Delhi residence. The Yogi Adityanath government had formed an SIT on February 14 to speed up the case but Yadav has so far refused to give his voice sample to make any headway.

After the CJM's final ultimatum, Yadav will have no choice than to give his voice sample and face prosecution.