Former officials of Dudhsagar dairy charged in 2013 case
A special anti-corruption bureau (ACB) court on Friday framed charges against former home minister and former chairman of Dudhsagar Dairy, Vipul Chaudhary, and its former office-bearers in connection with the financial irregularities in the dairy. Additional sessions judge B K Avashia framed the charges for criminal breach of trust, criminal conspiracy and corruption against Chaudhary, then chairperson Asha Thakor and managing […]
Vipul Chaudhary sentenced to 7 years in prison for graft
A Gujarat court on Thursday sentenced former minister Vipul Chaudhary, 57, and 14 others to seven-year imprisonment after convicting them in the case related to siphoning off ₹750 crore from the Mehsana District Milk Producers Federation, popularly known as Dudhsagar Dairy. The dairy is India’s largest co-operative dairy and part of the Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing […]
After elections, is a dairy scam accused back in BJP good books?
Almost a month after former Gujarat minister Vipul Chaudhary got out on bail, Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel shared the stage with him at a massive event of the Anjana-Chaudhary community Sunday. While Patel has been addressing community ‘sneh milans’, being seen with Vipul Chaudhary, whom his government is investigating in an alleged Rs 800-crore scam, seemed unusual for […]
How dairy politics is playing out in north Gujarat
For nearly a fortnight now, the Chaudharys of north Gujarat have been protesting against the arrest of former minister Vipul Chaudhary. A member of the ruling BJP in Gujarat, Chaudhary had once sided with Shankersinh Vaghela during a rebellion. He has been arrested on the alleged charges of irregularities worth Rs 800 crore in Dudhsagar […]