Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Crime Branch will take Gopalpur MLA Pradeep Panigrahi, who is cooling his heels at Jharpada jail on remand for two days as the Court of SDJM, Bhubaneswar has permitted the agency for the same.
Panigrahi was arrested by the Odisha Crime Branch on December 3 under Sections 419, 420, 467, 468, 469, 471, 120-B of the IPC and Section 66C/66D of IT Act.
Evidence came to light that Panigrahi collected money from people on behalf of Akash Pathak, son of suspended IFS officer Abhay Pathak, on the false promise of providing jobs in Tata motors. This case relates to impersonation, cheating, forgery, criminal conspiracy and other cyber offences by Akash Kumar Pathak, the Crime Branch had earlier said in a statement .