The news going viral about the frog meat getting served in Lahore's restaurants is absolutely fake.

LAHORE (Dunya News) – A man had been claimed to sell meat of dead frogs to restaurants after he was arrested with 185kg of dead toads in Lahore, according to local Urdu newspaper.

The news which is going viral on social media also claimed that the dead frogs were being used in burgers and shawarmas whereas the story is totally fake.

The police, infact, arrested two men who were carrying dead frogs inside eight sacks while travelling on the roads of Lahore in a rickshaw. The sacks contained 185kg of toads in which some of which were even alive. Police stopped them for taking frogs as a rare species.

Actually, they were selling the frogs to laboratory on Akbari Road which then supplied to medical universities. Medical students dissect the frogs and practice suturing on them.

Having the frogs is not a crime and neither the police nor the Punjab Wildlife Department had any issue with the matter. The men were later released and were free to go but their frogs were released into a river.