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The report, filed earlier a section court, states that Bhole Baba Organic Dairy Pvt Ltd was allegedly supplying ghee via its proxies – Vaishnavi Dairy and AR Dairy (Express Archives)
A steadfast that had been disqualified and blacklisted from the tender process allegedly supplied adulterated ghee to the Lord Venkateswara Temple done proxies, the Special Investigation Team’s remand study filed successful transportation with the Tirupati laddu “adulteration” lawsuit and accessed by The Indian Express shows.
The report, filed earlier a section court, states that Bhole Baba Organic Dairy Pvt Ltd was allegedly supplying ghee via its proxies – Vaishnavi Dairy and AR Dairy – contempt being backlisted by the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD), which manages the temple’s affairs, successful 2022. TTD uses 15,000 kilograms of ghee to hole the celebrated laddu prasadam.
The remand study was filed connected Sunday against 4 of the accused: Pomil Jain and Bipin Jain, erstwhile directors of Bhole Baba Dairy successful Roorkee; Apurva Vinay Kant Chawda, CEO of Vaishnavi Dairy, Poonambakkam; and Raju Rajasekharan, the MD of AR Dairy, Dindigul.
According to the remand report, Bhole Baba Dairy utilized to proviso ghee to the TTD astatine Rs 291 per kg successful 2019. It kept supplying ghee until 2022, erstwhile the TTD inspected the dairy’s facilities and concluded that its manufacturing practices were “not satisfactory”, disqualifying it from the tender processes.
However, the TTD kept buying ghee from 2 of the company’s proxies. While Vaishnavi Dairy won a tender to proviso ghee successful 2020, AR Dairy allegedly fabricated documents to triumph the tender successful March 2024, the remand study states.
According to the remand report, Bhole Baba Dairy allegedly helped its proxies passim the tender process, including successful fabricating documents to suffice for the bid.
As per the tender, portion AR Dairy was expected to manufacture and proviso ghee, it procured the ghee from Vaishnavi Dairy, which was successful information procuring it from the blacklisted Bhole Baba Dairy, the remand study says.
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While AR Dairy was expected to present Agmark modular ghee, they fabricated documents to this effect and allegedly supplied adulterated ghee, the study states.
The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) authorities had claimed past twelvemonth that Lord Venkateswara Temple’s prasadam, offered to devotees successful the signifier of laddus, was adulterated with carnal fat. A five-member team, including 2 officers from the CBI, 2 from the Andhra Pradesh authorities and 1 from the Food Safety Standards Authority of India, has been probing the case.
The lawsuit became a governmental flashpoint successful Andhra Pradesh, with the TDP lashing retired astatine the erstwhile Jagan Mohan Reddy authorities for “playing with the astir pious of offerings successful Tirupati.” Reddy’s authorities was successful powerfulness successful the authorities betwixt 2019 and 2024.
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