Tirupati: Within the newest development contained in the Tirupati temple laddu controversy, the Andhra Pradesh Government has paused the Special Investigation Team (SIT) investigation into the alleged adulteration of ghee used to make Prasadam (laddus) until the Supreme Court’s next hearing, scheduled for Thursday, October Three. The most development comes Supreme Court criticized the state government which publicly claimed that animal fats were used contained in the making of Tirupati Prasadam under Jagan Mohan Reddy’s previous governance.
In keeping with Andhra Pradesh Director General of Police Tirumala Rao, the choice end up to be taken as a “precautionary measure” to be sure that the integrity of the investigation.
“We've stopped the probe at the moment in view of the ongoing hearing contained in the Supreme Court. Our team has conducted more than a substantial selection of inspections, recorded statements of some people and done a preliminary investigation,” DGP Rao said.
On Monday, the Special Investigation Team inspected Tirumala’s flour mill — a key place where ghee is stored before it’s used to prepare the laddus. These sweet treats are religiously distributed as prasad to the countless faithful devotees visiting the sacred hill temple each year.
Police registered an FIR over the case on September 25 and constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) a day after to analyze the case thoroughly.
The Andhra government felt the warmth after the pinnacle court stated that, prima facie, there end up to be no solid evidence to prove that contaminated ghee end up to be used to make laddus at the famous temple.
“It be miles very clear from the report that it's no longer the ghee used. Unless you may possibly ensure, how did you go into public with that?” a bench of Justices BR Gavai and KV Viswanathan said.
The court articulated that politics should steer clear from matters of religion, thereby indicating that the scrutiny will likely be perchance passed on to a neutral entity.
This entire controversy started off when Chandrababu Naidu, the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, created a stir by announcing that the laddus made in the pinnacle of the former YSRCP government contained ingredients like beef tallow, pig lard, and fish oil as per a laboratory report. Naturally, this didn’t sit well with the former Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy, who brushed aside these allegations outrightly.
