NOIDA: The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Saturday said it will provide legal and financial aid to the Dadri beef murder suspects and demanded an FIR against the family of the victim, Mohammad Akhlaq, for cow slaughter.VHP joint general secretary Surendra Jain said the organisation was in talks with a "top lawyer" to defend all 18 people arrested so far as he met some of their families in Dadri's Bisada village. These 18 have been accused of battering Akhlaq to death at his home in Bisada on September 28 last year, on the suspicion that he had beef. One of them, a juvenile, has got bail.The accused's family members on Saturday also met Union home minister Rajnath Singh. Sanjay Rana, a local BJP functionary and father of prime accused Vishal, said Singh had assured them the probe would be fair."We have designated the role of coordinating with the family members and defence lawyers of youths accused in this case to a person," Jain told the media in Bisada. "We are also consulting a top lawyer. The accused will be given proper legal aid. We will fight the case from the district court to the Supreme Court."The VHP functionary used information from the forensic report selectively to argue his case for a cow slaughter FIR. "The forensic report confirms it was cow meat. The police should register an FIR of cow slaughter against Akhlaq's family," Jain said, adding they the compensation given to them by the UP government should also be taken away.In doing so, Jain papered over the police seizure report that said the sample of meat seized and sent for testing was taken from the road at a tri-junction near Akhlaq's house. Police also said no meat was found inside the house. Both chief minister Akhilesh Yadav and the Uttar Pradesh police chief have said the nature of meat is irrelevant to the case, which is one of murder.But the VHP joint secretary had a different interpretation, saying "emotions" and "sentiment" triggered the reaction against Akhlaq. "It was the failure of intelligence sources and police," Jain said. "They could not read the pulse of people at that time. Akhlaq was having cow meat and local people were aggrieved. The emotions and sentiments resulted in the incident," he added.Jain also attacked the Akhilesh government for minority appeasement. "The Yadav community has a long tradition of protecting cows. We do not know why there is a sudden change in their attitude," he said.Akhlaq's family, meanwhile, questioned the "motive" of the forensic report. "The motive is questionable. The first report said it was goat meat. How can the same flesh change in the next examination?" said Jaan Mohammad, Akhlaq's brother. Yusuf Saifi, the lawyer for Akhlaq's family, said the meat tested at the Mathura forensic lab was not found in the house. "The meat sample was found outside. This has no bearing on this investigation," Saifi said.An initial test at the veterinary hospital in Dadri had said the meat seized was mutton but the Mathura lab report later confirmed it was beef.