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A fresh forensic report from a laboratory in Mathura has claimed that the meat that was found at the House of Mohammad Akhlaq in Dadri, Uttar Pradesh was “beef”. Eight months after Mohammad Akhlaq was lynched by a mob in Bishahra village in Dadri.
In September last year, 50-year-old Mohammad Akhlaq was dragged out of his home and killed by a mob in over rumours that he had stored beef. While Akhlaq succumbed to his injuries, his son Danish survived.
The police took meat samples from a dustbin outside Akhlaq’s home and quoted a local doctor as saying that it was mutton. A lab in Agra has also confirmed that it motton not beef.
According to the documents presented by the lawyers of the accused, the forensic report of the University of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry said that the meat found inside Akhlaq’s home “belonged to beef or a cow progeny”.
After the fresh forensic report the communal temperature of the region is expected to go up as the villagers of Bishahra had been demanding bail to all the accused making counter charges of alleged cow slaughter by Akhlaq. The Hindu has a copy of the report.
The fresh report was released to the media by lawyers of the accused arrested on charges of murder of Akhlaq. An earlier report by the Greater Noida Veterinary officer just after the lynching of Akhlaq had declared that the meat was mutton or a goat progeny.
Eighteen people including relatives and son of a former BJP leader were arrested on charges of murder of Akhlaq. Yusuf Saifi, the lawyer of Akhlaq’s family in the case said that the ongoing case is that of murder and the forensic report of the Mathura lab remained irrelevant to the case.