Dadri case: Meat found was beef, says lab report

Noida/Lucknow, May 31

A report prepared by a forensic lab in Mathura has concluded that the meat found in the house of the Dadri lynching victim was beef, eight months after the attack set of a fierce debate over intolerance.

The finding was in contrast to the preliminary report of an inquiry by the Uttar Pradesh Veterinary Department, which said the meat over which Mohammad Akhlaq (52) was lynched on September 28 last in Dadri was mutton of “goat progeny”.

What was recovered from the house of the lynching victim in Dadri was beef, a senior prosecution officer in the case said today, quoting the report by the Forensic laboratory of the Uttar Pradesh University of Veterinary Services (Animal Husbandry).

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Chemical analysis showed that it belonged to “cow or its progeny”. The report had been sent to the Noida police and submitted to a fast-track court in a sealed cover, an official said. — PTI