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Delhi air quality ‘severe’ after Diwali night

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Delhi air quality 'severe' after Diwali nightNew Delhi : Bursting of firecrackers on Diwali night has taken pollution in Delhi and NCR on Monday to a “severe” level, showed figures recorded by air monitoring agencies.

A thick layer of smog blanketed several parts of the national capital region affecting visibility in the morning.

According to Central Pollution Control Board, the level of PM 2.5 — a prominent pollutant — was 431 microns (average) per cubic metre compared to a safe level of 60.

The PM 2.5 level is particulate matter with a size of less than 2.5 microns that can reach the thinnest arteries of lungs in our body.

The data recorded at the air monitoring stations at Anand Vihar, R.K. Puram, Dilshad Garden, Shadipur, Mandir Marg and Punjabi Bagh (West Delhi) revealed pollution at critically high levels.

System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR) of the Ministry of Earth Sciences had forecast pollution levels to reach “severe” on October 30 and at “worst” on October 31.

Its data shows that PM 10, which is slightly bigger than PM 2.5 and yet very harmful for the respiratory system, had touched 500 microns per cubic metre compared to a safe level of 100 since Sunday midnight.

Pollution in Delhi peaks to severe level during Diwali as a hazardous mix of harmful gases and pollutants hang very close to the surface. The Delhi High Court had described the capital as “gas chamber” last year.

The pollution levels in neighbouring Agra in Uttar Pradesh and Gurgaon in Haryana were also alarming, as PM 2.5 level touched the figure of 494 and 500, respectively, post Diwali.

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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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