“GCMMF files FIR for fake news that Amul supplied ghee adulterated with animal fat to Tirupati temple, Mumbai Congress leader, ‘Spirit of Congress’ and others delete tweets”, Opindia, September 21, 2024:
“Amid the ongoing controversy over animal fat including beef fat and pig fat found in ghee used to make famous laddus of Tirupati Balaji temple in Tirumala, Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation has filed an FIR against several social media users for spreading fake claim that Amul supplied the adulterated ghee. Yesterday, Amul had clarified that it never supplied to Tirupati temple after several X users including Congress supporters claimed that Amul replaced Nandini to supply ghee and it was Amul ghee where several animal and plant based fats were found.
Hemant Gauni, Deputy General Manager (Sales) at GCMMF, filed the complaint with the Cyber Crime department of Ahmedabad police, saying that on 20 September, he spotted several users claiming on X that Amul supplied ghee with animal fat to Tirupati temple. He said 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.
As per police, the FIR mentioned seven X handles as accused, which are ‘Spirit of Congress’, ‘Banjara1991’, ‘chandanAIPC’, ‘SecularBengali’, ‘rahul_1700’, ‘profapm’ and ‘prettypadmaja’. Dr. Lavina Sinha, DCP Cyber Crime, said that during investigation, more accounts were found who had posted the fake news, action will be taken against all of them……”
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