A pound of flesh

June 09, 2016 16:55

After the lynching, the police sent the meat recovered from outside Akhlaque's house to a forensic laboratory for testing. While preliminary veterinary reports had suggested that the meat was mutton, the forensic lab, eight months after it was sent the sample, submitted a report a week ago, certifying that the meat was beef. The response of some Bharatiya Janata Party notables who represent Uttar Pradesh in the provincial legislative assembly and in Parliament has been instructive.

Mukul Kesavan on the Akhlaque case. Read

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