The Madras High Court on Thursday April 26,2018 ordered a CBI probe into a illegal
gutkha business in Tamil Nadu that allegedly involves ministers and
incumbent Director General of Police T.K. Rajendran.
The first Division Bench of Chief Justice Indira Banerjee and Justice Abdul Quddhose passed the order on two public interest litigation petitions, one filed by DMK MLA J. Anbazhagan and the other by activist ‘Traffic’ K.R. Ramaswamy.
“The underground gutkha business is a crime against society and, therefore, we deem it fit to order a CBI probe into the issue,” the judges said while pronouncing their verdict on the two cases in which the arguments concluded and judgement was reserved in last January.
The judges, however, made it clear that a CBI probe ordered by them should not be construed as a definite conclusion with respect to the complicity of any of the persons involved in the alleged business and that it was up to the investigating agency to unearth the truth.
The I-T Department had also supported the plea for a CBI probe on the ground that documents recovered by it from a gutkha manufacturer during a 2016 raid revealed payment of huge amount of bribe to ministers and top police officers to desist from taking action against the sale of the product.
The first Division Bench of Chief Justice Indira Banerjee and Justice Abdul Quddhose passed the order on two public interest litigation petitions, one filed by DMK MLA J. Anbazhagan and the other by activist ‘Traffic’ K.R. Ramaswamy.
“The underground gutkha business is a crime against society and, therefore, we deem it fit to order a CBI probe into the issue,” the judges said while pronouncing their verdict on the two cases in which the arguments concluded and judgement was reserved in last January.
The judges, however, made it clear that a CBI probe ordered by them should not be construed as a definite conclusion with respect to the complicity of any of the persons involved in the alleged business and that it was up to the investigating agency to unearth the truth.
The I-T Department had also supported the plea for a CBI probe on the ground that documents recovered by it from a gutkha manufacturer during a 2016 raid revealed payment of huge amount of bribe to ministers and top police officers to desist from taking action against the sale of the product.
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