In a significant revelation with regard to the adulterated ghee used to make the ladoo offering at the Sri Venkateswara Swamy temple in Tirumala, a Uttarakhand-based dairy was said to have supplied 68 lakh kilograms of ghee to the temple, without procuring milk from any source. The dairy is said to have supplied ghee worth Rs 250 crore in this regard.

The CBI received the details of the fraud following the arrest of Ajay Kumar Sugandh, who supplied various chemicals such as monodiglycerides and acetic acid ester to Bhole Baba Organic Dairy. The dairy, operated by its promoters, Pomil Jain and Vipin Jain, won the contract from the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam in 2019, and the practice continued till 2024, according to a report by The Times of India.

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