The Brahmapur Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate (SDJM) Court on Sunday allowed police to take former Sanakhemundi Congress MlA Ramesh Jena on a seven-day remand again.
Claiming that the remand was necessary for further interrogation as they has filed two more cases against Jena, police had prayed for extension of his remand. Jena was produced at the court after completion of his five-day remand.
Meanwhile, the special squad of the Brahmapur police on Sunday raided a flat at the Jyotsna Apartment under the Nayapalli police station in Bhubaneswar and seized a luxurious car.
The squad raided the flat No. 104 and also seized some incriminating documents. Sources said Jena used to come to the flat at night. A woman namely Sweety was also staying in the flat. However, just a few days before the arrest of Jena, she had left the flat.
Police too raided the house of Saka Sujit Kumar, a close aide of Jena in Brahmapur. Kumar was the Congress candidate for the Digapahandi Assembly constituency in the last elections.
In a related development, the Brahmapur police seized four vehicles belonging to Jena’s family and aides. The vehicles include two Mahindra Scorpios, a Toyota Innova and a Volkswagen Jetta, said a police official.
The police also found out that the bullet proof lexus seized on Friday has not been registered so far.
Notably, two new cases including an attempt-to-murder and a murder were lodged against Jena in two different police stations of Ganjam. The police have formed two teams, one to raid and arrest Jena’s associates and the other to look into his financial empire as earlier reported.
Meanwhile, police are all set move the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), to probe the alleged chit fund link of the former MlA.
On Friday, Brahmapur SP Sarthak Sarangi had claimed that Jena had links with the scam-tainted Green India chit fund company and seized a luxury vehicle belonging to Jena bearing a Haryana registration number allegedly gifted by a chit fund firm.