An employee from AR Dairy Food Private Limited—a Tamil Nadu-based company facing allegations of supplying adulterated ghee to the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams(TTD) for Sri Venkateswara Temple prasadam—has dismissed the claims as “absurd.

Kannan, a quality control officer at the Tamil Nadu-based AR Dairy Food Private Limited while talking to a Tamil news channel Friday, has termed the allegations raised against the company for supplying adulterated ghee to the Sri Venkateswara Temple as “unsubstantiated”.

In his comments to a Tamil news channel Friday, Kannan, a quality control officer at the Dindigul-based AR Dairy Food, called the allegations “unsubstantiated”.

A day after the TTD initiated legal action against the firm, the employee refuted the allegation that fish oil was used to prepare ghee.