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The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the alleged usage of spurious ghee successful the making of the Tirumala laddu connected Thursday reportedly arrested TTD Executive Engineer R.S.S.V.R. Subramanyam who served arsenic the General Manager (Procurement) during the play nether scrutiny.
He was aboriginal subjected to aesculapian introspection astatine Ruia Hospital successful Tirupati, according to sources.
The full fig of arrests successful the laddu adulteration related lawsuit has present gone up to 10.
The lawsuit centres connected allegations that betwixt 2019 and 2024, astir 20 crore laddus were prepared utilizing substandard and adulterated ghee.
The SIT enquiry reportedly recovered that retired of 48.76 crore laddus produced during the period, astir 40% contained thenar oil, palm-kernel oil, and different chemic additives successful spot of axenic ghee, raising superior questions astir oversight and procurement practices nether the erstwhile administration.
According to SIT findings, the past TTD Board approved ghee procurement worthy respective crore rupees from aggregate dairies, including Bholebaba Dairy (Uttarakhand), AR Dairy (Dindigul, Tamil Nadu), Vaishnavi Dairy (Punabaka, Tirupati district) and Malgang Dairies (Uttar Pradesh). It is estimated that the TTD purchased 1.61 crore kg of ghee, of which officials present assertion that 68 lakh kg was adulterated.
The SIT precocious questioned erstwhile TTD president Y.V. Subba Reddy astatine his Hyderabad residence and has already detained his erstwhile idiosyncratic assistant, Chinna Appanna, for interrogation.
