Senior IPS officer Joydeep Nayak, who was arrested on Saturday from Uttar Pradesh by the Odisha Vigilance police, was remanded to judicial custody to the 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 the Odisha Government of `88 lakh while working in Odisha on an inter-cadre deputation between June 2011 and June 2016.
Brought on transit remand from UP, the Vigilance police prayed the court to take Nayak 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 Sunday, the Vigilance judge 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 the Choudwar Circle Jail in judicial custody.
Jail sources said Nayak would be lodged in a solitary room of the jail hospital as he is sick and under medication recuperating from a surgery.
It may be mentioned that five others, including a senior OPS officer, arrested in the same case are also lodged in the Choudwar jail.