The local administration in Noida have confirmed that the meat stored in Akhlaq's home was simply mutton and not beef as was being rumoured by his murderers.
"We have got the meat samples picked up from Akhlaq's fridge tested by our animal husbandry department experts who said quite affirmatively that it was not beef at all," Noida district magistrate N P Singh told Sharat Pradhan/ Rediff.com.
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