‘Biggest-Ever Catch’: Odisha Vigilance Arrests IFS Officer & Son In DA Case

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Vigilance on Friday arrested Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer Abhay Kant Pathak and his son Akash Kumar Pathak in a disproportionate assets case.

The father-son duo was produced before a special court of the Vigilance after a medical check-up at the Capital Hospital here.

The 1987-batch IFS officer is currently serving as the Additional PCCF, Plan, Programme and Afforestation in Odisha.

His alleged unaccounted riches has stunned the Odisha Vigilance.

The Vigilance officials have so far recovered Rs 60 lakhs cash, gold ornaments weighing 800 grams, documents relating to purchase of gold worth Rs 23 lakh, costly vehicles and Rs 9.4 crore bank deposits following searches at 5 places in Bhubaneswar, 7 places at Mumbai and Pune in Maharashtra and 1 place in Bihar.

It is alleged that Pathak spent about Rs 3 crore on 20 chartered flights alone, mostly during the lockdown. The anti-graft wing also found that more than Rs 1 crore had been paid towards house rent of the luxury flats and the farmhouse in Pune.

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The Tata Motors Limited (TML) has also lodged a complaint with the Crime Branch of Odisha Police against Akash, who is accused of illegally impersonating as MD Tata Motor Pune Passenger Division and CEO designate and cheating unemployed youths by promising them jobs in Tata Motors Limited.

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