Panaji:
Stunned by the video clip on Youtube alleging the drugs from Anti Narcotic Cell's (ANC) lockers are pushed into the market by its officers themselves, the state police bosses have decided to `look into the controversial tape.
"We are looking into it and will take appropriate action," Director General of police Bhimsen Bassi told reporters on Wednesday evening.
He said the police will initiate proper action in this regard after looking into the contents of the tape.
The video clip flashed through Youtube implicates police inspector Ashish Shirodkar, earlier attached to ANC and now posted at Old Goa police station, in a major scam embarrassing the state police.
Atala (full name not revealed), an Israeli national under police scanner for drug dealing, is shown in the video confessing that he took the drugs from the ANC officer. The drugs, as per the clip, were stolen from the ANC lockers, which were stored there after formal sealing by the court.
"Now I have one big officer.. He gets a lot of drugs from Mapusa court where the judge, where the people catch half kg cocaine. This officer tries to go inside, steal all the drugs from there and give me," Atala says in broken English.
Atala in the video, uploaded on April 20, 2008, has contended that if district police catches him with the drugs, then he will be jailed for lifetime but if ANC catches him he need not worry.
"This now if police catch me, I go my life, all my life prison. Nobody else can touch me here. The ANC cannot touch me. Cause the ANC I pay a lot money too," the conversation mentions.
The controversial tape alleges that the police inspector met Atala for the first time and procured 10 ecstasy tablets, which he gave to him hesitantly.
"Thereafter, we became stronger and stronger friends," Atala says in the tape and flaunts his contacts in the police.
The local media, which spotted this video, initially handed over the tape to Deputy Inspector General of Police Ravindra Yadav who offered no comments on the issue.
Superintendent of Police Veenu Bansal preferred to remain tight lipped stating that only the DGP will make a statement on the issue.