'Judge’s resignation won’t end the problem'

KOTTAYAM: Government Chief Whip P C George has said the resignation of the Vigilance Court Judge P K Haneefa will not put an end to the issue raised by him in connection with court order in the palmolein case. He added that he would continue to take up the issue unless he got a satisfactory reply.

 Earlier, he told reporters that the judge  had quit as his conscience troubled him because of committing procedural error by ordering probe into the palmolein case. Suspecting a big conspiracy behind the whole issue, George wondered how did the CPM leader Aanathalvattam Anadan predicted the judge’s plan to submit resignation. On Opposition leader VS Achuthanandan’s charge that George had links with quotation gangs, he said ‘If I am a member of the quotation team, V S Achuthanandan is the ‘boss’ of it.