New Delhi: Senior IPS officer Amitabh Thakur, who is locked in a tussle with ruling Samajwadi Party(SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and took his fight to the Centre, was tonight suspended by the Uttar Pradesh government.

The suspension with immediate effect came on a day when Thakur, an IG-level officer, approached the Union Home Ministry in Delhi seeking a CBI probe into the rape case filed against him after he lodged a complaint against Mulayam for threatening him.