Haryana lab finds beef in biryani seized from Mewat

CHANDIGARH/GURGAON: The Haryana government went food policing in Muslim-dominated Mewat on Thursday , picking up seven samples of biryani from various spots for a meat check. A state-run veterinary lab that tested the samples claimed all the samples contained beef.

The raids were conducted after the Haryana Gau Seva Ayog, which had ordered police to check biryani samples in Mewat ahead of Eid, apparently received a complaint.The biryani samples were collected by police from Mundaka and some other villages.

The raids have cast a shadow on Eid festivities in Mewat, which has been under watch of the government's cow protection office ever since August 24, when a joint team of the cow protection task force and the animal husbandry department collected samples of biryani from roadside vendors in a village on Alwar-Gurgaon road.