The Madras High Court on Monday opined that a CBI probe could be initiated in the gutkha scam in Tamil Nadu as the issue was serious in nature.
DMK legislator J Anbazhagan filed a petition in the court for setting up a special probe team headed by a retired judge to investigate into the gutkha scam.
Making oral observation that why there should not be CBI probe into the issue, the bench headed by Chief Justice Indira Banerjee said that the petitioner's allegations were serious in nature.
The scam surfaced recently after IT sleuths seized a document from a gutkha producer in Chennai, which revealed that more than Rs 35 crore was bribed to a minister and top police officials to sell the banned product in the State.
Published 31 July 2017, 10:54 IST