India, June 13 -- The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Uttar Pradesh government and the Centre to conclude all the four pending disciplinary proceedings against former IPS officer Amitabh Thakur within six months.

Thakur, a 1992-batch UP cadre IPS officer, was compulsorily retired from service by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs on March 23, 2021, under relevant rules and on the grounds that he was "unfit to be retained" in the public interest following multiple departmental inquiries and disciplinary complaints. Otherwise, he would have served till 2028. A partial working day (PWD) bench comprising justices Satish Chandra Sharma and Sanjeev Sachdeva took note of the submissions of lawyer Ruchira Goel, appearing for the state gover...