Overview
- Shivakumar and his wife Ramya were detained by the Central Crime Branch in Bengaluru as alleged masterminds of the counterfeit ghee operation.
- CCB officers located large, high‑tech industrial machines used to produce spurious ghee, with manufacturing traced to a unit in Tamil Nadu.
- Raids earlier this month recovered 8,136 litres of adulterated ghee, coconut and palm oil, four goods vehicles, machinery and ₹1.19 lakh in cash, with total seizures estimated at about ₹1.27 crore.
- Investigators say the network used fake Nandini packaging and leveraged Bengaluru distributors, some reportedly holding official KMF licences, to push products into retail channels.
- A case is registered with the CCB Special Investigation Division, which is examining links to Krishna Enterprises, freezing bank accounts, and pursuing additional suspects.