The book of accounts seized by the Income Tax department in the multi-crore gutkha scam points to the involvement of more police officers, including two in the IPS, in illegally facilities storage, transportation and sale of the tobacco product in Chennai. While the involvement of two DGP-rank officers is already being probed by the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption, on the directions of the Madras High Court, it has come to light that the two Joint Commissioners of Police who served in Chennai during the year 2015-2016 had allegedly received payments from a gutkha manufacturer through a middleman. The documents reveal that bribes were paid on various dates to the State Health Ministers, two former Commissioners of Police, two Joint commissioners of Police and scores of other from various State and Central government departments. A perusal of the book of accounts shows that a sum of Rupees 92 lakh was paid to an Assistant Commissioner of Police and Rupees 65 lakh to two Joint Commissioners of Police between June 6,2015 and March 21,2016. This is part of the Rupees 39.91 crore in total that was paid to officials of various departments. Meanwhile, documents also show that despite the ban, the sale of gutkha between November 2014 and June 2016 was to the tune of Rupees384,38 crore. Madhava Rao, in a sworn statement, had admitted that his firm made a gross profit of Rupees 188.13 crore in that period.