Bhubaneswar, Nov. 27 -- The Odisha Government suspended IFS officer Abhay Kant Pathak today, hours after he and his son Akash Kumar Pathak were arrested by Vigilance and remanded to judicial custody.

The two have been arrested for allegedly amassing assets worth crores disproportionate to their known sources of income. The bureaucrat was found in possession of disproportionate assets of Rs 9,35,42,594 beyond his known sources of income (435% of total income from all known sources), which he could not account for satisfactorily.

The father-son duo was produced before the Special Vigilance Court, which rejected their bail plea and remanded them to judicial custody for 14 days at the Jharpada Special Jail here.

The Vigilance officials hav...