Kottayam: The controversial Solar case investigation team head DGP A Hemachandran has shot out a letter to government owning up the responsibility of any lapses in the probe.

The letter was delivered to Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Subroto Biswas through a special representative. The letter was presented to the DGP Loknath Behera by Hemachandran personally.

Hemachandran said the government should not make the police scapegoat for the alleged lapses. He said action should not be initiated against the officials Superintendent of Police V Ajit, Reji Jacob, K S Sudarshan and DySP Jason K Abraham.

Interestingly, he has not mentioned anything about ADGP K Padmakumar and DySP K Harikrishnan. Meanwhile, there are reports of officials of the team planning to hang their boots.