ED Attaches Assets worth Rs. 129.85 Cr in TTD Ghee Adulteration Case
The ED investigation was initiated on the basis of an FIR registered at Tirupati East police station alleging criminal conspiracy, cheating, forgery and corruption in the fraudulent supply of adulterated ghee to TTD
Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Zonal Unit of Directorate of Enforcement (ED) has provisionally attached immovable and movable assets worth Rs.129.85 crore belonging to Bhole Baba Oroganic Dairymilk Private Limited and Sri Vyshnavi Dairy Specialities Private Limited, their promoters Vipin Jain and Pomil Jain, their family members and other entities, according to an ED statement.
According to the statement, the properties of Sukriti Foods Private Limited and its promoter Kailash Chand Mangla and his family members and other related entities and individuals were also attached, under the provisions of Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, a part of an ongoing money laundering probe into the Tirumala Tirupati Devastianams (TTD) ghee adulteration fraud.
The ED investigation was initiated on the basis of an FIR registered at Tirupati East police station alleging criminal conspiracy, cheating, forgery and corruption in the fraudulent supply of adulterated ghee to TTD.
The predicate agency filed a charge-sheet and a supplementary chargeshest before the Special Judge for SPE and ACB Cases, Nellore, disclosing two massive criminal conspiracy to supply adulterated ghee to TTD for preparation of the sacred Lord Venkateswara Laddu Prasadam, thereby cheating TTD, endangering public health and ‘generating huge unlawful gains.
Investigation under PMLA has revealed that adulterated ghee worth Rs. 234.5 crore was supplied to TTD by Bhole Baba company, directly and through front dairies which bid for TTD tenders in their own names for a commission, while the ghee was actually manufactured at the factories of Bhole Baba company and Sukriti Foods company by blending refined palm oil, palm kernel oil and palmolein with chemicals such as monoglycerides, acetic acid ester, lactic acid and betacarotene, invoiced as edible oil.
To clean the books, the palm oil so consumed was shown as sold to bogus buyers, while fictitious purchases of milk and ghee and fictitious sales of by products such as skimmed milk were recorded to project a genuine dairy operation.
Payments ‘made through banking channels against the fictitious purchases were returned in cash through hawala channels, and this cash was used to fund the bogus palm-oil buyers, to pay commissions to the front dairies and to pay other persons connected with the fraud, the statement said.
Earlier, ED had conducted searches on June 3, 2026 at 16 premises in Uttarakhand, Tamil Nadu, Maharashira, Delhi, Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh linked to the principal conspirators, front dairies, chemical suppliers and accommodation-entry providers, resulting in seizure and freezing of cash and bank balances of Rs. 2.7 crore.
The ED has also arrested Vipin Jain and Kailash Chand Mangla, promoters and directors of Bhole Baba Oroganic Dairymilk Private Limited and Sukriti Foods Private Limited, respectively, who orchestrated the manufacturing of adulterated ghee and its fraudulent supply to TTD, the statement said.
Total attachments in this case, including seizure and freezing under Section 17 of PMLA, amounts to Rs.132.55 crore so far Further investigation is under progress.