Tirupati Laddu Row: What the SIT report finally says | LME 113 | Pooja Prasanna

For months, claims that animal fat was used in Tirupati laddus dominated headlines, political debates, and primetime TV, triggering outrage across the country.One year later, the SIT chargesheet and government lab reports tell a very different story.Two premier institutions, ICAR National Dairy Research Institute and NDDB CALF, found no animal fat in the ghee samples tested. No lard. No beef tallow. No fish oil. Instead, the reports point to vegetable oil adulteration using palm oil and related fats, along with chemical additives to mimic real ghee.So how did a case of food adulteration turn into a nationwide religious controversy?In this episode of Let Me Explain, Pooja Prasanna breaks down what the chargesheet reveals.For suggestions and feedbacks, write to [email protected] Pooja’s LME? Support the show: https://rzp.io/rzp/support-lmeIf you are watching from abroad, click this link: https://buy.stripe.com/28o01q9md0OPdtm8wRBecome a TNM subscriber- https://www.thenewsminute.com/subscriptionProduced by Megha Mukundan, Script by Pooja Prasanna, Camera by Ajay R, Graphics by Dharini Prabharan, Edit by Nikhil Sekhar ET Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.