Overview
- TTD executive engineer RSSVR Subrahmanyam, a former procurement chief, was arrested and remanded for 15 days, becoming the first serving temple official held in the case.
- SIT submissions to the SPE & ACB Court listed seven TTD staffers and five external dairy experts as new accused, citing their roles in clearing unqualified suppliers.
- Investigators say Bhole Baba Organic Dairy used proxy firms including Vaishnavi, AR Dairy and Malganga to deliver adulterated ghee, with chemicals and palm-based oils flagged in remand records.
- The probe’s working estimate holds that about 68 lakh kg of substandard ghee entered TTD between 2019 and 2024, with roughly 40% of 48.76 crore laddus in that span potentially affected.
- Former chairman Y. V. Subba Reddy, recently questioned by the SIT and the CID in a related Parakamani case, denies wrongdoing, plans to seek a Supreme Court gag order and has offered to take a lie-detector test.