Hyderabad, Feb. 12 -- The ghee which was found to be adulterated with animal fat and supplied to Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh for making of sacred "laddu prasadam" last year was supplied by Uttarakhand-based firm which was earlier disqualified by the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) in 2022, investigations by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)-led special investigation team (SIT) revealed.

In its remand report submitted to the local court in Tirupati on Sunday night following the arrest of four persons belong to three different dairy firms, the SIT authorities disclosed that it was Bhole Baba Organic Dairy Private Limited, based out of Roorkee in Uttarakhand, which had supplied the ghee to TTD in June 2014, routing it thr...