Overview
- The High Court-ordered CID and ACB investigations into the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams Parakamani case are ongoing.
- YSRCP leader and former TTD chairman Bhumana Karunakar Reddy alleges selective and procedurally flawed questioning by investigators and says the assets in question were donated via registered gift deeds.
- He cites a September 2023 Lok Adalat verdict acquitting C. V. Ravi Kumar and challenges the current TTD board’s authority to revisit that outcome.
- TTD board member G. Bhanu Prakash Reddy of the BJP counters that Ravi Kumar was caught trying to steal $900 on April 29, 2023, and alleges properties worth about ₹14 crore were taken as donations to absolve him.
- Endowments Minister Anam Ramanarayana Reddy accuses the YSRCP regime of looting TTD, claims temple assets were shifted to party leaders’ names, and demands an apology from Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy.