DMK sees red in CBI’s gutkha charge sheet

Questioning the motive behind the reported lack of mention of the DGP and the Minister’s names in the case charge sheet, Stalin wondered if the charge sheet was filed by the CBI due to political pressure or order from the highest level.

He remarked that the charge sheet sans the big names occupying high offices led people to genuinely doubt if the “SC ordered CBI probe into the scam, which was causing serious health threats to the people of the state, was digressing and if the action was taken in haste to help the officer and minister secure acquittal in the case?”

Referring to the recent shake up in the CBI ranks, including the investigation officer of the Gutkha scam, Stalin recalled the stay order of the apex court preventing the CBI director (in charge) from taking major decisions and urged the CBI director (in charge) to act impartially and bring to books all accused, including the one’s occupying high office, to protect the credibility of the investigating agency.

Asserting that the CBI should implement in letter and spirit the order of the Supreme Court, which transferred the case probe to the CBI from the state police, Stalin recalled the raids, which unearthed the ‘gutkha diary’ and said the DMK would move the apex court again seeking impartial and independent probe without political intervention in the case if the investigations digressed in the wrong direction to help Minister Vijaya Baskar and DGP Rajendran escape from legal action in the scam.