New Delhi (05.05.2021): Senior Indian Forest Service officer Abhay Kant Pathak (1987), in jail since November 2020 on charges of amassing disproportionate assets, was compulsorily retired on Monday after the Centre approved the state government’s recommendations. In the last twelve months, over 100 officials have been given compulsory retirement over corruption issues including DA cases. It may be underlined that the Government of Odisha had in November 2020 recommended Pathak’s compulsory retirement, accusing him of being “very corrupt and high-flying”. Pathak, who served as Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (Additional PCCF) would have become the next PCCF of Odisha by June this year had he not been named in DA case. The Vigilance Department (Odisha) accused Pathak of amassing disproportionate assets worth rupees 9.30 crore, 432 percent of his total income, and claimed it to be the biggest disproportionate assets case in Odisha’s history. Though Vigilance Court in Odisha had in January 2021 granted bail to Pathak and his son in the DA case; he and his son remain behind bars in another case of non-payment of money to a travel agency in Bhubaneswar. The vigilance sleuths had alleged that Pathak and his family made at least 20 trips to different cities through chartered planes during Covid lockdown in 2020.
IFS officer facing DA case compulsorily retired
By IndianMandarins - 2021-05-05 06:48:00
New Delhi (05.05.2021): Senior Indian Forest Service officer Abhay Kant Pathak (1987), in jail since November 2020 on charges of amassing disproportionate assets, was compulsorily retired on Monday after the Centre approved the state government’s recommendations. In the last twelve months, over 100 officials have been given compulsory retirement over corruption issues including DA cases.
It may be underlined that the Government of Odisha had in November 2020 recommended Pathak’s compulsory retirement, accusing him of being “very corrupt and high-flying”.
Pathak, who served as Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (Additional PCCF) would have become the next PCCF of Odisha by June this year had he not been named in DA case.
The Vigilance Department (Odisha) accused Pathak of amassing disproportionate assets worth rupees 9.30 crore, 432 percent of his total income, and claimed it to be the biggest disproportionate assets case in Odisha’s history.
Though Vigilance Court in Odisha had in January 2021 granted bail to Pathak and his son in the DA case; he and his son remain behind bars in another case of non-payment of money to a travel agency in Bhubaneswar. The vigilance sleuths had alleged that Pathak and his family made at least 20 trips to different cities through chartered planes during Covid lockdown in 2020.
