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TIRUPATI: As if the laddu contention and the Parakamani lawsuit were not enough, the spot moving the famed Tirumala temple has present alleged that it was duped of crores of rupees by a steadfast that sold silk dupattas to it implicit the past decade.
Instead of axenic mulberry silk, the steadfast allegedly sold to the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) 100% polyester dupattas from 2015 to 2025.The committee has referred the 'dupatta scam' lawsuit to the authorities anti-corruption bureau (ACB), asking it to place those down the alleged fraud. A transcript of the TTD committee resolution, which explicitly describes the details of the alleged scam is with TOI.TTD presents silk dupattas to donors and different devotees during the Vedasirvachanam astatine the Ranganayakula Mandapam during the VIP interruption darshan slot wrong the Tirumala temple.
Donors and those who purchaw VIP interruption darshan tickets are felicitated by priests here. The authorities procure ample quantities of the dupattas worthy respective crores from clip to time.The alleged scam unfolded erstwhile the TTD, headed by president BR Naidu, directed its vigilance and information helping to analyse if the dupattas met tender specifications. The norms authorities that the dupattas indispensable beryllium woven wholly from axenic mulberry silk utilizing 20/22 denier yarn successful some warp and weft, with a resultant minimum number of 31.5 denier.
Each portion indispensable show 'Om Namo Venkatesaya' successful Sanskrit connected 1 broadside and successful Telugu connected the other, alongside symbols of Sanku, Chakra, and Namam.
Size, weight, and borderline plan are besides specifically defined.Based connected the findings of the vigilance wing, it has go wide that the tenderer defrauded the temple spot by supplying cheaper polyester material. The spot committee passed a solution to petition the manager wide of the ACB to transportation retired a elaborate probe and initiate transgression enactment against everyone progressive successful the scam,” BR Naidu stated. Vigilance officials collected samples from caller stocks astatine the warehouse successful Tirupati and different from approved stocks astatine the Vaibhavotsava Mandapam (a venue wherever spiritual events takes place) successful Tirumala. These dupattas were supplied by a azygous firm, VRS Export of Nagari, which has been providing assorted categories of cloth to TTD for years. The samples were sent for technological investigation to the Central Silk Board (CSB) laboratories successful Bengaluru and Dharmavaram town.
TTD committee solution backed by the Vigilance reports showed that the trial results exposed a wide violation, arsenic some laboratories confirmed that the worldly was polyester. Vigilance officers noted that the mandatory silk hologram was missing successful each samples. The enquiry further revealed that TTD had already awarded a declaration to the aforesaid steadfast for different 15,000 dupattas astatine astir Rs 1,389 per piece. The steadfast and its sister concerns unneurotic supplied cloth worthy astir Rs 54.95 crore betwixt 2015 and 2025.
