PATNA, April 30 -- A month after giving promotion to 1998-batch officer Amit Lodha to the rank of Additional Director General (ADG), the Bihar government has constituted a committee to look into the prospect of prosecution sanction against the officer in disproportionate assets case, said a senior officer familiar with the matter. However, as the case lingered, Lodha moved the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) for delay in his promotion. The CAT ruled in Lodha's favour and later the government gave Lodha his promotion. The committee would also see if the CAT order could be challenged. The prosecution sanction is required for filing chargesheet against the officer in the DA case and once the sanction would be granted, the process would move further, said the official. The case is with the Special Vigilance Unit (SVU) of the Bihar government and involves payment to the officer for a film revolving around his heroics, which Lodha has all along refuted. Even the enforcement directorate (ED) also registered Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR) against the IPS officer, presently posted as ADG (state crime records bureau) under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) of 2002 which is now pending. Amit Lodha, who allegedly accumulated assets valued more than Rs.7 crores even as his total income from all legal sources would not be more than Rs.2 crores in gross without any deductions. The Patna High Court has already rejected senior IPS officer's plea for quashing FIR lodged against him. It had direct the investigating agency to take the investigation of this case to its logical end within a stipulated period. The SVU claimed in the court that he had visited Mumbai in August, 2021 to meet the production team of web series and had received Rs.12,372 on August 18 from Friday Story Teller LLP. It is alleged that there were regular transactions' of money from the account of 'Friday Story Tellers' to the account of Komudi Lodha, his wife....