Another scam rocks Tirumala temple: Rs540 million fake silk dupatta fraud exposed

Dubai: The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD), which manages one of the world’s most revered and richest Hindu temples, has been shaken by a decade-long procurement scandal involving fake silk dupattas worth nearly Rs540 million. Coming barely a year after the 2024 adulterated laddu ghee controversy, the fresh revelations have deepened concerns about systemic lapses in the temple’s procurement and quality-control mechanisms. An internal vigilance probe has now found that from 2015