GAYA JI, Aug. 27 -- A dispute over ownership of a buffalo has turned into a case under ST/SC Act and in an interesting turn of the investigation, the IG Magadh range, Vikas Vaibhav, has directed a DNA test of the bovine to ascertain its lineage and decide the rightful owner. Police said the dispute started a week back when Suraj Yadav, a resident of Seutar village in the Atari police station area of Gaya district, lost his buffalo. After extensive searching, he discovered that his buffalo was tied at Prakash Manjhi's house in Nauranga Toli under the same police station and brought it to his home "forcibly". This kicked off a dispute. Manjhi enraged with Yadav's bid to take the bovine home forcible from his backyard filed a complaint with the Atari police station claiming that he had taken the animal on batai (lease) and that it was stolen or lost, the IG said. Sources said the Atari police personnel summoned Yadav for questioning and later brought the bovine to the police station. Things took a bitter turn when Yadav's supporters created ruckus at the police station enraged over the bovine being brought to the police station. This prompted, SHO, Atari police station to broker a solution by suggesting that whosover's house the buffalo goes first in a natural way would be considered the "real" owner of the cattle. The bovine , incidentally, went to Suraj Yadav's house, which incensed Manjhi. Manjhi filed a case against Yadav under the SC/ST Act. Later, RJD MLA Ajay Yadav alias Ranjit Yadav joined in to back Suraj Yadav pleading that he was a poor man and if he is forced to enter litigation under the SC/ST Act, he would lose more money than the worth of the buffalo. On the other hand Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) Party national spokesperson Shyam Sundar Sharan pleaded police to consider Manjhi's ownership right over the cattle. In order to conduct a comprehensive investigation in the case, the IG directed the DNA test on buffalo so that it could be decided scientifically whose ownership claim is right. Rural SP, Gayaji Divyanjali Jaiswal has been made the in-charge of the investigation. As the local police prepares for the DNA test of the bovine, the news has become the talk of the town as this is fr the first time that people have heard of a DNA test of a cattle to know its lineage. " We have never heard of any such episode earlier. This is quite unique. Let us see, how the police now resolve this dispute with DNA test of the bovine," said Ranjeet Kumar, a local farmer....