Senior IPS officer Joydeep Nayak, who was arrested on Saturday from Uttar Pradesh by Odisha vigilance police, was remanded in judicial custody to Choudwar jail after he was produced in the residential office of a vigilance court (special) judge here on Sunday.
The Tripura cadre Odia officer is facing corruption charges here for his alleged key role in cheating Odisha government of Rs 88 lakh. The IG-rank officer embezzled the money while working in Odisha on an inter-cadre deputation between June 2011 and June 2016. Brought in transit remand from UP, the vigilance sleuths prayed the Court here to take the IPS officer on police remand for four days for custodial interrogation. Limping with support of
crutches after an apparent ligament surgery, Nayak has also applied for bail.
Since the Court was closed on the day, the vigilance judge has posted the remand petition of the police and the bail petition of the accused to be jointly taken up on Monday for hearing and remanded the suspended IPS officer to Choudwar circle jail in judicial custody.
Jail sources said the senior IPS officer would be lodged separately in a solitary room of jail hospital as he is sick and under medication recuperating from a surgery.
