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Bhubaneswar, July 4: Economic offence wing (EOW) of Crime Branch Monday took suspended assistant director of Factories and Boilers (Medical), Motilal Gouda, on a six-day remand for further interrogation on the health check-up scam.
Sources said EOW officials urged the court to grant them permission to take Gouda on seven-day remand, but the agency was allowed to take him on remand for six days.
Earlier, EOW officials had arrested Gouda from Vizianagaram in Andhra Pradesh in connection with the health check-up scam.
Gouda went into hiding before he fled to Andhra Pradesh after Orissa High Court rejected his anticipatory bail plea June 24. “EOW officials will probe the money trail of Gouda and his associates. They will also investigate whether Motilal gave kickbacks to political leaders or received favours from any political leader,” sources said.
“A case was registered against Gouda and his associates for forgery, cheating, criminal conspiracy, and causing disappearance of evidence. Gouda had allegedly gone to a lab in Kharvelnagar area and stolen several documents and information from computer that could have landed him trouble. He and his associates had issued fake gazette notifications to several labs and nursing homes in Bhubaneswar, Cuttack and Talcher. So far, four persons, including him, have been arrested in connection with the case,” said an EOW official.