Former Director of Horticulture Bijay Ketan Upadhyaya, an IAS officer who was arrested in a bribery case by the Vigilance police recently, was sent to judicial custody on Sunday for 14 days.
The Court of Special Judge, Vigilance here had allowed the Vigilance police to take Upadhyaya on remand till January 5 for interrogation. After completion of the remand period, he was on the day produced before the court, which remanded him to judicial custody.
Notably, the bureaucrat is accused of demanding a bribe of Rs one lakh from SRM Plastochem Private Ltd. through Santosh Kumar Pattanayak, Relationship Manager of Yes Bank, Bapuji Nagar branch, who was allegedly acting as a conduit for the IAS officer.
The Vigilance police had caught the bank official red-handed when he was accepting the bribe of Rs one lakh on the behalf of Upadhyaya for releasing the supply firm’s bill of Rs 50 lakh.
Upadhyaya was suspended from service by the State Government after the incident.
