Tainted Odisha IFS Officer Claims Son Earns Rs 1 Cr/Month, Did Not Cheat People

Bhubaneswar: Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer Abhay Kant Pathak, who is embroiled in a disproportionate assets case, and son Akash were taken to the Capital Hospital here for a medical check-up on Friday.

Speaking on Akash’s assets worth crores, the IFS officer said, “The claims of duping people is false. My son earns Rs 1 crore a month and he didn’t depend on me for his expenditure.”

He also refuted having misappropriated any government money. “There is no corruption involved and everything is legal and will be proved when the time comes,” he added.

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

Akash is accused of cheating people by promising them jobs by falsely claiming to be an MD at TATA Motors.

In a letter to Amitendra Nath Sinha, IG, CID CB, Tata Motors Ltd had complained that Akash had been claiming to be the managing director of Tata Motor, Pune Passenger Division and CEO Designate. He is also using fake employee ID card and visiting card by making illegal use of Tata Motors trademark.

Claiming that such actions amount to criminal conspiracy, cheating, fraud, forgery, impersonation and infringement of trademark and copyrights, Tata Motors requested the IG to trace Akash and take necessary steps to stop his criminal activities.

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The 1987-batch IFS officer’s alleged unaccounted riches has also 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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