Nayak, an IG ranked officer, allegedly misappropriated Rs 88 lakh government funds during his deputation in Odisha Police previous year.
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Bhubaneswar: Arrested IPS Officer Jaydeep Nayak was sent to the Chowduar Jail on Sunday after the Special Judge Vigilance decided that the investigating agency’s plea to take Nayak on four day remand will be heard on Monday.
The officer, said to be the prime accused in the case, was on deputation to Odisha till December 2015. Nayak has been booked under Sections 13 (2), 13 (1)(c) (d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act and Sections 467, 468, 409 and 120-B of the Indian Penal Code.
Joydeep Nayak was produced before the court of chief judicial magistrate in Ghaziabad of Uttar Pradesh which has granted the transit remand, an official release said.
During his tenure as the IG of SC & ST Protection Cell, HRPC, the scam allegedly took place in connivance with the staff of the department and private players.
The Odisha Vigilance Department already arrested five people including the cell’s Additional Superintendent of Police Basanta Kumar Pradhan (who was then a deputy superintendent of police), for their involvement in the irregularities.
Nayak, a 1991-batch IPS officer, was allegedly involved in misappropriation Rs 88 lakh meant for computer education of SC/ST students and self help groups (SHGs) in Odisha when he was on deputation in the Human Rights Protection Cell (HRPC) of Odisha police.
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Nayak was working as Officer on Special Duty at the State Institute of Public Administration and Rural Development in Agartala before he was suspended. Subsequently, the Tripura government placed him under suspension and Orissa High Court also refused to grant him anticipatory bail.
