Amul Dy GM files complaint against X users for rumours that it supplied adulterated ghee to Tirupati temple
Cybercrime Police Ahmedabad booked seven users of separate handles for these posts
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The row started after Andhra CM Chandrababu Naidu alleged that animal tallow was found in ghee used to make the Prasad at the temple and his party cited a report from NDDB as the basis for the claim. (File Photo)A senior official of the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) on Saturday filed a complaint against several social media users on X for allegedly defaming Amul and spreading rumours that they had supplied the ghee to Tirupati Balaji temple that allegedly had animal fat.
Hemant Gauni, Deputy General Manager (Sales) at GCMMF, in his complaint stated that he had travelled to Delhi on September 20. When he reached Ahmedabad airport at about 6:30 pm, he was scrolling on the social media site X (formerly Twitter), when he saw that several users had posted that it was ‘Amul’ that supplied the ghee with animal fat in it. This ghee was then used to make the laddus at the Tirupati Balaji temple.
Gauni claimed in the FIR, filed at Cybercrime Police Station in Ahmedabad, that the posts on the social media site were made in enmity, to defame and cause harm to the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), which owns the Amul brand by spreading rumours.
The police have named the X handles ‘Spirit of Congress’, ‘Banjara1991’, ‘chandanAIPC’, ‘SecularBengali’, ‘rahul_1700’, ‘profapm’ and ‘prettypadmaja’ as accused in the FIR.
The row started after Andhra CM Chandrababu Naidu alleged that animal tallow was found in ghee used to make the Prasad at the temple and his party cited a report from NDDB as the basis for the claim.
However, the supplier of the ghee to the temple, AR Dairy, later denied this.
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