more-inFormer Commissioner of Police S. George, arraigned in the gutkha case, conceded on Friday that a scam did take place, though he sought to blame his subordinate. Addressing reporters at his residence in Nolambur, Mr. George, a retired DGP-rank officer, claimed that the then Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central Crime Branch) S. Jayakumar had not passed on information about the scam. “I am not saying that there is no gutkha scam. Mr. George contended that on the dates on which the gutkha manufacturers were alleged to have paid him bribes to allow the sale of the contraband, he was not the Chennai police commissioner. I am not aware of the Book of Accounts (seized from a gutkha manufacturer)... let it be verified and investigated,” he said.

Source: The Hindu September 07, 2018 19:52 UTC