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About a third of votes cast in Jharkhand polls

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Ranchi: About a third of voters had cast their votes till 11.00 a.m. in the fourth phase of the Jharkhand state assembly elections, an Election Commission official said Sunday.

“Till 11.00 a.m., 30.06 percent voting has taken place. Till 11.00 a.m. the highest turnout was in Sindri with 40 percent, followed by Tundi with 39 percent,” the official added.

Earlier, balloting for 15 of the total 81 seats of the Jharkhand state assembly began Sunday at 7 a.m.

The polling is taking place at 5,482 booths, including 36 auxiliary polling booths. Among these, 716 polling booths have been declared very sensitive and 2,007 have been declared sensitive.

The Election Commission has declared 183 polling stations as model polling stations. Web casting facility is available at 335 polling stations and approximately 27,410 polling personnel are deployed for poll duties during this phase.

In this phase, a total of 43,48,709 voters, including 20,03,516 female voters, will decide the fate of 217 candidates, 16 of them are women candidates.

“Balloting for 13 of the 15 seats will take place from 0700 hours to 1500 hours. However, for the two seats in Dhanbad and Bokaro, voting would continue till 1700 hours,” an Election Commission official said.

Among the key candidates whose fate will be decided in this fourth phase is former chief minister Babulal Marandi, contesting from Giridih seat. Ministers Mannan Mallik of the Congress, Haji Hussain Ansari of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, and Suresh Paswan of the Rashtriya Janata Dal are among other prominent candidates in this phase of elections.

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What monkey fled with a bag containing evidence in it: Read full story

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The court, generally, considers a person who commit a crime and the one who destroys the evidence, as criminals in the eyes of law. But what if an animal destroys the evidence of a crime committed by a human.

In a peculiar incident in Rajasthan, a monkey fled away with the evidence collected by the police in a murder case. The stolen evidence included the murder weapon (a blood-stained knife).

The incident came to light when the police appeared before the court and they had to provide the evidence in the hearing.

The hearing was about the crime which took place in September 2016, in which a person named Shashikant Sharma died at a primary health center under Chandwaji police station. After the body was found, the deceased’s relatives blocked the Jaipur-Delhi highway, demanding an inquiry into the matter.

Following the investigation, the police had arrested Rahul Kandera and Mohanlal Kandera, residents of Chandwaji in relation to the murder. But, when the time came to produce the evidence related to the case, it was found that the police had no evidence with them because a monkey had stolen it from them.

In the court, the police said that the knife, which was the primary evidence, was also taken by the monkey. The cops informed that the evidence of the case was kept in a bag, which was being taken to the court.

The evidence bag contained the knife and 15 other important evidences. However, due to the lack of space in the malkhana, a bag full of evidence was kept under a tree, which led to the incident.

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