Nearly 2 months after migrant worker was lynched for ‘eating beef’ in Haryana, lab report says meat not of cattle

“The cooked meat collected from the spot was sent to a molecular lab in Faridabad. It has emerged that the meat was not cattle’s,” Bharat Bhushan, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Badhra, told The Indian Express. The arrest of six people is pending and they will be arrested soon, he added.

Malik’s relatives told The Indian Express that the same day, they had been called to the police station and asked if they consumed beef.

Pooja Vasisht, Superintendent of Police, Charkhi Dadri, said, “We have arrested 10 people and this report will be submitted in the court along with the challan soon.”

Malik came to the state to work as a ragpicker and was living with his wife and two-year-old daughter in Hansawas Khurd village. According to investigators, the accused called Malik and his friend Aseeruddin to a shop under the pretence of selling empty plastic bottles and allegedly assaulted them. While Aseeruddin managed to escape, they took Malik on a motorbike to another location and allegedly assaulted him again, which led to his death. His body was later discovered near the shanties where he stayed.