NEW DELHI: The Andhra Pradesh authorities on Tuesday suspended the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probe into the Tirupati laddu ‘prasadam’ case until October 3.
The federal government has mentioned the choice has been taken within the view of an ongoing listening to within the Supreme Court as it will function a “precautionary measure” to make sure probe’s integrity.
“SIT investigation might be suspended till October 3, as a result of ongoing listening to within the Supreme Court docket.The SIT was shaped to research the Tirupati Laddu prasadam case and the suspension is a precautionary measure to make sure the investigation’s integrity,” Andhra Pradesh director basic of police (DGP), Dwaraka Tirumala Rao was quoted as saying by information company ANI.
The highest court docket on Monday slammed the CM N Chandrababu Naidu-led Andhra Pradesh for going public with his allegation of adulterated prasadam with none foundation and hurting the feelings of crores of devotees.
The court docket noticed that politics needs to be stored out of the difficulty of religion and there was nothing prima facie to show that contaminated ghee was used to make laddus at Tirumala Tirupati temple.
Listening to a batch of 4 petitions, together with one filed by Subramanian Swamy, a bench of Justices BR Gavai and Okay V Viswanathan mentioned prasadam was not despatched for check and repeatedly requested the state and Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) to indicate proof that contaminated ghee was used to make laddus. The court docket mentioned in accordance with the report, a sam ple of rejected ghee was examined.
“There are some disclaimers within the lab report. It isn’t clear in any respect. It says rejected ghee was subjected to the check. If you happen to your self have ordered an investigation, what was the necessity to go to the press? The report got here in July and the assertion was made in September. The report says that was not the fabric used for prasadam,” the bench mentioned on the outset.
It sought solutions from the state govt and TTD on how they got here to the conclusion that contaminated ghee was used to make the laddus. Senior advocate Siddharth Luthra, showing for TTD, mentioned the check was carried out after devotees complained concerning the change in style and recounted the occasions resulting in the controversy.
