A massive food fraud has been uncovered involving an Uttarakhand-based company, Bhole Baba Organic Dairy, which supplied 68 lakh kilograms of adulterated ghee worth ₹250 crore to the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) between 2019 and 2024 — despite not procuring a single drop of milk or butter. The ghee was used in preparing the iconic laddu prasadam served to devotees at the world-famous Tirupati temple.

Investigations by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Special Investigation Team (SIT) revealed that the so-called dairy, owned by Pomil Jain and Vipin Jain, had no milk collection network, no butter production, and no functioning dairy plant capable of manufacturing genuine ghee. Yet, the firm managed to corner multi-crore contracts to supply the temple trust by faking

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