Hyderabad, Feb. 12 -- After a day of outrage and heightened tensions over a piece of meat found inside a Hanuman temple in Hyderabad's Tappachabutra, city police concluded that a cat had brought it into the temple.

At 8:30 am on Wednesday, February 11, the city police received information about a piece of meat, weighing 250 grams, found inside the Lord Shiva Temple in Sankata Vimochana Hanuman Temple premises near Madina Hotel, Natraj Nagar, under Tappachabutra police station limits.

The call was made by the temple authorities after the head priest made the discovery. As the information spread, people began gathering at the temple, and soon Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers in Hyderabad took up the issue.

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