Tamil Nadu Minister S P Velumani today joined issue with DMK working president M K Stalin on the multi-crore gutka scam and said it will be DMK men who would have to go to jail after the CBI inquiry on the issue.
"It will be DMK men who will be punished and go to jail," the Municipal Administration minister told reporters here in response to a question on Stalin's remarks that AIADMK ministers and some top police officials will be behind bars if CBI conducted a fair probe.
He said none of the ministers or ruling party MLAs were instigating police to register cases against members of other political parties in any district.
Moreover, police continued to carry out searches and seize banned tobacco products across the state and were registering cases, Velumani said.
Stalin, while speaking at a demonstration organised by the party here yesterday, accused a top district police officer of 'foisting' cases on DMK workers in a bid to save the ruling AIADMK and a state minister over the multi-crore gutka scam.
The state has been rocked by the multi-crore gutka scam allegedly involving a Tamil Nadu minister besides a former and a serving top police officials, into which the Madras High Court has ordered a CBI probe.
The minister, who reviewed drinking water supply and other developmental schemes with senior department officials, said problems relating to drinking water were being attended to immediately on receipt of complaints.
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