Updated: Jul 13 2023 3:51PM
Mehsana, Jul 13 (PTI) A court in Mehsana on Thursday sentenced former Gujarat minister and Dudhsagar Dairy’s ex-chairman Vipul Chaudhary to seven years’ imprisonment in a case of cheating and causing a loss of Rs 22.5 crore to the dairy in 2014 by supplying cattle feed to Maharashtra without following proper procedures.
Chaudhary is also the former chairman of the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), which owns the Amul brand. The Mehsana District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union Ltd is popularly known as Dudhsagar Dairy.
Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate of Mehsana, Y R Agrawal, convicted Chaudhary and 14 others for cheating under Indian Penal Code (IPC) Section 420 and awarded a jail term of seven years.
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