Odisha Channel Bureau Bhubaneswar, Nov 13: Senior legislator from Banki Pravat Tripathy, one of the accused in the mega chit fund scam in Odisha, was remanded to judicial custody by a local court on Thursday.Tripathy was suspended from the ruling Biju Janata Dal headed by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik hours after he was arrested by the CBI for his alleged links with the city-based chit fund firm Artha Tatwa Group on October 31.Tripathy was arrested after the CBI sleuths raided his houses at Banki and Cuttack city.The court remanded Tripathy to judicial custody till November 26 while denying him bail.Tripathy was produced before the court on the expiry of his 13-day-long CBI remand.The senior leader was taken to the Jharpada jail in the city along with other accused persons in the cases relating to the mega scam who were also produced in the court.Earlier, a court also rejected the bail plea of Mumbai-based model and television serial producer Preeti Bhatia.She is already in judicial custody following her arrest in the scam.As many as 22 others, including Mayurbhanj Lok Sabha Member and suspended BJD leader Ramachandra Hansdah, former BJD MLA Subarna Naik and former BJP legislator Hitesh Bagarti and Artha Tatwa Group head Pradeep Sethy were also produced before the court.All the accused who had also sought bail were denied the same and sent to jail.Hansdah, Nayak and Bagarti have been arrested by the CBI for their alleged links with Naba Diganta Capital Services Limited.
November 13, 2014
November 13, 2014
0 Comment
Related Articles:
- Congress demands SC-monitored probe in chit fund and mining scams
January 3, 2016, 2:07 pm
- Court extends Sarathi Baba’s police remand
August 12, 2015, 10:30 am
- Ponzi scam: Chargesheet filed against Seashore Group
March 7, 2015, 6:03 am
- Tata Steel excludes Sukinda: Local MLA writes to CM
February 15, 2015, 10:22 pm
- Justice Das to head chit fund probe panel
February 4, 2015, 10:34 pm
- CBI questions BJD MP Rabindra Jena
January 12, 2015, 1:06 pm
- Odisha chit fund case: CBI arrests DSP Pramod Panda
December 19, 2014, 8:53 am
- Court denies bail to Pravat Tripathy
December 8, 2014, 6:53 am
- ED attaches Seashore properties
December 3, 2014, 9:46 am
- BJD blackmailing CBI: Niranjan
November 24, 2014, 8:05 am
Breaking News:
- US buys 81 Soviet-era combat aircraft from Russia's ally costing on average less than $20,000 each, report says
April 28, 2024, 11:35 pm - Exclusive-China firms go 'underground' on Russia payments as banks pull back
April 28, 2024, 11:22 pm - 2 dead, 1 hurt after 350,000-pound load detaches from 18-wheeler and pins vehicle in Texas
April 28, 2024, 8:04 pm - Racer dies during St. Jude Rock ‘n’ Roll Running Series in Nashville
April 28, 2024, 7:19 pm - AstraZeneca admits for first time in court documents its Covid vaccine can cause rare side effect
April 28, 2024, 6:00 pm - The Pizza Chain You Had No Idea Was The Biggest In The US
April 28, 2024, 3:45 pm - Have you heard the one about Trump? Biden tries humor on the campaign trail
April 28, 2024, 2:03 pm - Ukraine pulls back from 3 villages in east, Zelenskiy pleads for weapons
April 28, 2024, 1:44 pm - 19 Signs From The Past Week That Made Me Laugh So Hard, I Popped A Muscle In My Back And Shed A Single Tear
April 28, 2024, 12:16 pm - Donald Trump is running against Joe Biden. But he keeps bringing up another Democrat: Jimmy Carter
April 28, 2024, 11:41 am