Report on Dadri meat ready for 2 months, police yet to collect it

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When contacted, Dr Rajesh Dixit, who retired on October 31 as director of the Cow Meat Examination Forensic Laboratory in Mathura, said: “The examination was conducted and the report prepared in October itself. Since no official from Noida came to collect the report, it was lying in my office… We did not get any reminders,” he said.

He refused to divulge the findings of the report.

After Dixit retired, Chief Veterinary Officer of Mathura, Dr S K Malik, looked after the administration work of the laboratory till December 24. “Till the time I was in charge, no report was sent. I don’t have any knowledge about it,” he said.

Dr Harish Chand Singh, the new joint director who has since taken charge, said: “I joined the laboratory on December 26 and have no knowledge about the report. I can confirm that I have not sent any report.”

Asked why the laboratory was not contacted, Circle Officer, Gautam Budh Nagar police, Anurag Singh, said: “As per our investigation, we don’t need the report during the trial in court. But if it has been prepared, we will ask the district veterinary officer to contact the laboratory and obtain it. This will be submitted in court later.”

The report appended to the chargesheet describes three samples recovered as “meat having weight about 4-5 kgs in the form of small pieces”.

Prepared by the doctor at the Government Veterinary Hospital in Dadri, it identifies the meat as belonging to “goat progeny” and states: “All meat non hygienic, red in colour and foul smelling with white fat deposit between the groups of muscles…. Both fore legs and both hind legs up to knee level also recovered and both hind legs are intact with skin.”

The report is dated September 29 — a day after the lynching took place. “Rest of the meat… handed over to police authority for proper disposal,” the preliminary report stated.