Balasore, Aug 18: Former Remuna Inspector in Charge (IIC), Surendra Nayak, who is wanted for being engaged in a Hanuman coin case, moved the Orissa High Court for seeking anticipatory bail on Wednesday. Earlier, Balasore Superintendent of Police (SP), Niti Sekhar had ordered concerned officials to hold back Nayak’s salary and issued a notice asking him to depose as soon as possible. Accordingly, the SP served a notice to Nayak after he remained absent without permission and without informing the authorities about his whereabouts.
Nayak, who has been accused of ransacking the house of a tribal in faraway Malakangiri in his search for an elusive Hanuman coin, had from the Balasore district headquarters hospital on Tuesday. The matter came to light immediately, after the hospital authorities filed a complaint with the Town police station.
Police sources informed Nayak was involved in trade in Hanuman coin during his tenure in Malkangiri police station. He was supposed to depose before the Malkangiri police in the matter on August 13. He, however didn’t depose before the police, and visited a doctor at the district headquarters hospital here on August 13 complaining of chest pain. The doctor at the hospital advised Nayak to get admitted to the hospital. But Nayak didn’t turn up in the ward for treatment. The Town police has registered a case against Nayak in this regard.
Notably, Nayak had barged into and ransacked the house of one Irma Madhi in Gotijodi village in Padmapur area of Malkangiri district in the company of three others looking for a Hanuman coin after a businessman from West Bengal offered him Rs 10 crore for it. He is also reported to have beaten up Irma. Mistaking them for burglars, villagers had chased them down with bows and arrows, but Nayak and his accomplices had somehow managed to escape.
