CHENNAI: The grand premises of Tamil Nadu Health Minister C Vijayabaskar, Director General of Police TK Rajendran, former Chennai Police Commissioner S George and former state minister B V Ramana were among the 35 locations raided by the CBI last week. In a newly outed Gutkha Scam, top ministers, police officers, and revenue officials are alleged to have taken bribes to allow the manufacture and sale of gutkha, which was banned in the state in 2013. A CBI official said, “The simultaneous searches being conducted at 35 locations began at 7 am and will continue till late in the evening. Apart from ministers and police officers, the premises of some Indian Revenu Service (IRS) officers, central excise officers and sales tax officers are also being searched. Voluminous documents have been seized from all these places and will be examined in due course.”
