A court in Cuttack on Friday allowed the Vigilance police to take the arrested Athagarh Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) on a three-day remand.
A day after his arrest in disproportionate assets (DA) case, Vigilance officials produced DFO Sudhansu Mishra before the Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate (SDJM) court here and prayed for five days remand.
However, the court allowed three days remand of the accused for further interrogation.
The sleuths sought remand of the tainted forest official to interrogate him on the source of his wealth which was detected to the tune of nearly Rs 6 crore during raids at ten locations across the state on Thursday.
“A special investigating team has been constituted to interrogate the arrested DFO to unearth the source of his wealth,” Vigilance Director RP Sharma said.
On the other hand, departmental proceedings have begun for suspension of Mishra, said Forests and Environment Secretary Suresh Chandra Mohapatra.
Properties, both immovable and movable assets, worth Rs 5,92,93,178 was detected during simultaneous raids by the anti-corruption wing officials on Wednesday.