NEW DELHI: Former Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) chairman, YV Subba Reddy, has approached the Supreme Court docket searching for the formation of an impartial committee to probe the allegations surrounding the standard of elements used within the preparation of laddus served as Prasadam on the Sri Venkateswara Swamy Temple in Tirumala. The committee, as proposed by Reddy, needs to be led by a retired Supreme Court docket decide.
The transfer is available in response to the claims that substandard elements and animal fats had been used within the ghee for making the laddus, that are thought-about sacred choices on the temple.
Earlier, one other ex-chairman of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams belief board Bhumana Karunakar Reddy termed chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu’s claims over the usage of adulterated ghee with animal fat within the preparation of Tirupati Laddus as baseless on Sunday. He additionally demanded a CBI probe into these allegations.
“When TTD has stringent mechanisms in place to stop the availability of adulterated uncooked supplies at each stage, how can the CM make such an accusation,” he requested.
He requested how the TTD government officer J Syamala Rao might alter his assertion over lab studies.
“Throughout his press first press convention held in July, the EO mentioned that ghee shares had been discovered adulterated with vegetable oils and that the contractor was blacklisted and his provides had been returned. And now EO is echoing the remarks of the CM and stating that the ghee shares provided by AR Dairy Meals was adulterated with animal fat”, Bhumana underlined.
