The State Crime Branch (CB) would take Akash Kumar Pathak, who is accused of impersonating himself as the Managing Director of Tata Motors Limited (TML) and duping jobseekers of lakhs of rupees, on remand for five days from Friday.
The SDJM Court here on Thursday allowed the CB to take him on a five-day remand. The TML had lodged a complaint with the CB against Akash accusing him of committing cheating, forgery and impersonating as its MD.
At least 124 persons have allegedly been duped by Akash on pretext of providing them jobs. Akash and his suspended tainted IFS officer-father Abhay Kant Pathak have been arrested by the Vigilance police on the charges of amassing assets worth crores disproportionate to their known sources of income. During interrogation, Akash’s personal secretary David Peter has revealed that the IFS officer had spent lakhs of rupees to project Akash as the TML MD.
Akash opened an office at his father’s Government quarters at Unit-9 here in the name of Tata Motors two years ago.