Crime Branch to Take Akash Pathak on Remand

Bhubaneswar (Reporters Today Bureau): The Odisha Crime Branch will take Akash Pathak, who is accused of impersonating himself as the Managing Director of Tata Motors Limited and duping job seekers, on remand for five days from tomorrow.

The SDJM court here has allowed the agency to take him on a five-day remand. The TML had lodged a complaint with the Crime Branch against Akash Pathak accusing him of committing cheating, forgery and impersonating as the Managing Director of the company. The company in its FIR mentioned that Akash has taken huge amount of money fraudulently from unemployed youths to secure them a job in Tata Motors.

At least 124 persons have allegedly been duped by Akash Kumar on job pretext. Akash and his father Abhaykant Pathak, suspended IFS officer, have been arrested by the Odisha Vigilance on charges of amassing assets worth crores disproportionate to known sources of income. During interrogation, Akash Pathak’s personal secretary David Peter revealed that the tainted IFS officer had spent lakhs of rupees to project his son as the MD of Tata Motors, Vigilance sources said.