Meat found in victim’s house mutton, not beef

The report was issued by the deputy chief medical veterinary officer of the Government Veterinary Hospital at Dadri in Uttar Pradesh’s Gautam Budh Nagar district. The family kept shouting that they had not consumed beef, but Akhlaq was lynched to death.

The meat in Mohammad Akhlaq’s fridge was goat, not beef, it has finally been confirmed.

Soon after, a mob of around 200 people gathered outside Akhlaq’s house and all hell broke loose.

What was recovered from the house of the lynching victim in Dadri was not beef, but meat of “goat progeny”, a preliminary inquiry by the Uttar Pradesh Veterinary Department has found. The “mutton sample” has now been sent to the forensic laboratory in Mathura for ‘final diagnosis, ‘ says the report.

The report said that meat weighing about 4-5 kg in the form of small pieces, which was non-hygienic, red in colour and foul smelling with deposits of white fat was received for further tests.

The report comes just days after the police charged 15 people, including a minor, in the lynching case.

It was goat meat and not beef that 52-year-old Mohammad Akhlaq had consumed before he was lynched by a mob in Bisara village near Dadri on September 28, 2015.

Bhatia said it was revealed after the chargesheet was filed that an “invisible hand in the Dadri lynching was that of a BJP’s leader’s son”. “The group then were joined by 10 other accused and they started beating Akhlaq and his son Danish”, the source added.

“Everyone is talking about the report now, but you tell me why should we have lied?” said Ikraman Ikhlaq, Ikhlaq’s widow, in a telephone interview on Tuesday.