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Vipul Chowdhary, former minister of Gujarat and ex-chairman of Dudhsagar Dairy, has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment by a court in Mehsana. The verdict comes in a case where Chowdhary and 14 others were found guilty of cheating and causing a loss of Rs 22.5 crore to the dairy in 2014. He had supplied cattle feed to Maharashtra without following proper procedures.
Chowdhary, who is also the former president of the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), which owns the Amul brand, has been a prominent figure in Gujarat’s cooperative sector. He took over as a minister in the Shankersinh Vaghela government in 1996.
Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Mehsana, YR Aggarwal convicted Choudhary and other accused under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), including cheating, breach of trust and forgery. The accused were sentenced to prison terms ranging from one to four years.
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The case was registered in 2014 when Choudhary was working as the chairman of Dudhsagar Dairy and GCMMF. He was later removed from both the posts on charges of corruption in animal feed procurement.
According to the FIR, Chowdhary took the decision to send animal feed to drought-hit Maharashtra without proper permission. The state government alleged that the decision was taken without bringing the dairy to its board meeting or issuing any tender.
Others who were also sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment include former Dudhsagar Dairy board member, former vice-chairman Jalaben Thakor and former managing director Nishith Baxi.
