One-man panel to probe TTD ghee adulteration allegations

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The sheet  comprising retired IAS serviceman  Dinesh Kumar will taxable   a study  wrong   54 days.

The sheet comprising retired IAS serviceman Dinesh Kumar will taxable a study wrong 54 days. | Photo Credit: Representative photograph

The Andhra Pradesh authorities connected Friday constituted a one-man committee comprising retired IAS serviceman Dinesh Kumar to probe the alleged proviso of adulterated and substandard ghee to Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD).

A G.O. issued to that effect by Chief Secretary K. Vijayanand said that a lawsuit was registered successful the Tirupati East constabulary station, which led to the enactment of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) nether the supervision of Director of the CBI successful compliance with a Supreme Court order. 

The SIT has filed the charge-sheet earlier the tribunal connected January 23 and submitted a aforesaid - contained enactment recommending initiation of suitable enactment arsenic deemed acceptable against erring procurement committee members and elder officers of the TTD for the lapses, omissions and failures successful the relaxation arsenic good arsenic enforcement of ghee tender conditions.

In pursuance of the matter, the authorities formed the sheet to probe into the allegations and taxable a study wrong 45 days from the day of contented of the G.O. 

The one-man committee’s presumption of notation see appraisal of administrative lapses, omissions oregon failures successful relaxation and enforcement of the tender conditions, examining whether decisions were taken with owed diligence, recorded justification and procedural compliance, recognition of the grade of administrative work of officers, committee members oregon functionaries of TTD successful narration to the said lapses, recommending due administrative oregon disciplinary action, and confinement of the introspection strictly to administrative and governance aspects. 

The committee has been authorised to telephone for records, question written clarifications, get adept assistance with anterior support of the authorities and instrumentality the indispensable assistance from the TTD.

It was mentioned that thing contained successful the G.O. was prejudicial to the proceedings successful immoderate tribunal of law.

Published - February 20, 2026 08:36 p.m. IST

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