The Commissionerate police would take tainted IFS officer Abhay Kant Pathak’s son Akash Kumar Pathak, who is accused of impersonating himself as Managing Director of Tata Motors Limited (TML) and duping jobseekers and a travel agency, on remand for further investigation, said Commissioner of Police Sudhanshu Sarangi on Tuesday.
During the remand period, signature samples of Akash would be collected and sent to the Handwriting Bureau for examining the veracity of his signatures on the appointment letters issued by him to the jobseekers, said Sarangi.
The TML has lodged a complaint with the Crime Branch police against Akash accusing him of committing forgery by impersonating as its MD. The company in its FIR has mentioned that Akash took huge amounts of money fraudulently from unemployed youths on the pretext of providing them jobs in the TML.
The Commissionerate police have also registered a case against Akash and his father Abhay Pathak for allegedly cheating a travel agency of more than Rs 65 lakh. Based on a complaint filed by Sky King Managing Partner Prabhash Kumar Choudhury, the police registered the case under Sections 419, 420, 468, 471, 506 and 34 of IPC against the father-son duo at the Kharavel Nagar police station.
As per the complainant, Akash impersonated himself as TML MD and sent mails and other forged documents and booked chartered flights and hotels worth Rs 2.78 crore since June 2020. While Rs 2.13 crore was paid to the travel agency, Akash allegedly refused to clear the dues.