The Directorate of Enforcement (ED), Hyderabad Zonal Workplace, performed searches at 15 places throughout eight cities on Wednesday, in reference to the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) adulterated ghee case.
The searches had been carried out in Ahilyanagar, Bikaner, Dehradun, Delhi, Dindigul, Guntur, Mumbai and Roorkee, on the residential and workplace premises of a number of accused individuals, together with Pomil Jain, Vipin Jain, Raju Rajasekaran, Rajesh Mansukhlal Chavda, Apurva Vinaykanth Chavda, Machindra Shantaram Lanke, Ajay Kumar Sugandh, Mahesh Kumar Rohira and Ashish Agarwal.
In keeping with the ED, money amounting to ₹60 lakh was seized through the searches. Investigators additionally gathered particulars of investments allegedly comprised of proceeds of crime in properties valued at greater than ₹45 crore, apart from figuring out a number of immovable properties held within the names of the accused and their relations.
Searches had been additionally performed at dairy vegetation operated by A.R. Dairy Meals Pvt. Ltd., Malganga Milk & Agro Merchandise Pvt. Ltd. and Bhole Baba Natural Dairy Milk Pvt. Ltd. The company mentioned incriminating paperwork had been recovered, indicating the usage of a number of enterprise entities to hide and layer proceeds of crime.
The ED initiated its probe underneath the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act primarily based on an FIR alleging that adulterated ghee was provided to TTD, inflicting wrongful loss to the temple physique. Additional investigation is underneath method.
Printed – June 03, 2026 07:22 pm IST
