Investigators allege the factory was deliberately mixing hazardous substances such as detergent powder, urea fertiliser, caustic soda, refined palm and soybean oils, and milk powders with small amounts of genuine milk to artificially inflate volumes. Officials said roughly 300 litres of real milk were transformed into 1,700–1,800 litres of fake milk each day, then packed in pouches and distributed across villages in Sabarkantha and Mehsana districts, exposing hundreds of consumers to potentially harmful products.

Police on site destroyed about 1,370 litres of unsafe milk and seized nearly 2,000 litres of adulterated milk and over 1,100 litres of buttermilk, along with industrial chemicals and materials worth substantial value. The mix of chemicals was reportedly used not only to increase milk volume but also to enhance thickness, foam and apparent protein content to deceive buyers and mimic genuine milk quality.

Law enforcement arrested four adults connected with the operation and detained a juvenile worker, but the alleged factory owner remains at large. The case has been registered under provisions of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 and other relevant sections of Indian law, with investigators probing the distribution network and how the adulterated products infiltrated the local dairy market undetected for years.