NEW DELHI/LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh government, in its report to the Centre on the Dadri lynching , has refrained from mentioning “beef consumption or cow slaughter” rumours as the trigger for the incident or identifying the community that attacked Mohammad Akhlaq and his son Danish.

The report, sent on Monday in response to the Centre’s request made on October 1, is a factual account of the incident as recorded in the FIR registered at Jarcha police station in Gautam Budh Nagar district. It said some members of “a particular community” entered the house of Akhlaq, son of Samid Khan, on September 28 around 10.30 pm. Akhlaq and his son Danish were beaten up by people of that community alleging “slaughter of banned animal” (pratibandhit pashu ka vadh), a home ministry release said quoting from the UP government’s report. The sequence of events seems to suggest that the attack may have been pre-mediated, a home ministry functionary said.

The report, based on the account given by district officials, said UP police reached the site soon after the incident and got the injured admitted to Kailash Hospital in Noida, where Akhlaq was declared dead.

The two-page report, addressed to home ministry deputy secretary Reena Guha, made no mention of the possible circumstances that may have incited the lynching act, said a senior ministry official. “It is more of a factual report that has reproduced the contents of the related FIR,” the officer told TOI.

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On the action taken, the UP government's report said a case was registered under Case Crime No. 241/15 invoking IPC Sections 147 (rioting), 148 (rioting, armed with deadly weapons), 149 (unlawful assembly), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace), 506, 307, 427, 458 against 10 persons. Interestingly, the report omitted the charge of murder (Section 302) against the accused.

Eight of the 10 accused have been arrested.

Police has registered a case on the complaint of Ikraman, wife of Akhlaq, against Rupendra, Vivek, Sachin, Hari Om, Shri Om, Vishal, Shivam, Sadeep, Saurav, Gaurav and four-five other unknown persons.

The report further said after the incident, public representatives of various national and regional parties including Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, CPM politburo member Brinda Karat and AlMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi visited the Akhlaq family to offer condolences. In a separate sentence, the report said central minister Mahesh Sharma and BJP MLA Sangeet Som also visited Bisada village.

Giving details of the security deployment in Bisada village, the report said a company and two platoons of PAC were camping there, lead by a deputy superintendent of police. The district magistrate and senior superintendent of police were in the area every alternate day, and efforts were being made to talk to local leaders of different communities to maintain peace and communal harmony.

As per the report, on September 29, some locals staged a protest on the Amipur village road near the NTPC unit and resorted to stone-pelting and arson. Two separate FIRs were lodged in connection with the violent protests. The report said an ex-gratia relief of Rs 30 lakh was provided to Akhlaq’s widow while his three brothers were given financial assistance of Rs 5 lakh each.