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A special investigation team led by the CBI has arrested four people
in connection with the alleged adulteration of the famous Tirupati laddus offered as prasadam to
devotees at the Sri Venkateswara Swamy Temple, officials said. Those arrested have been identified as
Vipin Jain and Pomil Jain, former directors of Bhole Baba Dairy, Apoorva Chawda
from Vaishnavi Dairy and Raju Rajasekharan from AR Dairy, they said.
"Four people have been arrested. Two persons (Bipin Jain and Pomi
Jain) were of Bhole Baba Dairy, Apoorva Chawda of Vaihsnavi Dairy and (Raju)
Rajasekharan of AR Dairy," an official told PTI late on Sunday night.
According to sources, the SIT probe has revealed serious violations at
every step of ghee supply, leading to the arrests.
They claimed that Vaishnavi Dairy officials secured tenders under the
name of AR Dairy to supply ghee to the temple and were also involved in
creating fake records to manipulate the tender process. The SIT unearthed that Vaishnavi Dairy had falsely claimed that it
sourced ghee from Bhole Baba Dairy while the authorities noticed that the
latter did not possess the capacity to meet the temple board Tirumala Tirupati
Devasthanam's demand, sources said.
On the orders of the Supreme Court, the CBI set up a five-member SIT
in November last year to investigate the allegations of the use of animal fat
in making Tirupati laddus. The team comprised two officers from the central
agency, two from Andhra Pradesh Police and one from the Food Safety and
Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), they said.
In its October 4 order, the apex court, after hearing the petitions by
BJP leader Subramaniya Swamy and YSRCP Rajya Sabha MP YV Subba Reddy, among
others, said the probe into the
allegation of using animal fat in making the laddu would be conducted by the SIT
and will be supervised by the CBI director...During an NDA legislative
party meeting in the southern state in 2024, Naidu alleged that the erstwhile
YSRCP government did not even spare Sri Venkateswara temple and used
substandard ingredients and animal fats to make the laddus.
The allegations sparked a massive
controversy across the country
