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UP police caught five people exchanging demonetized notes with new currency
Lucknow: Five people were caught for allegedly being involved in exchanging demonetised currency notes for new notes at Gomti Nagar area of Lucknow, after a joint operation of the Special Task Force of the UP Police with the Income-Tax department.
The STF claimed to have recovered Rs 17.74 lakh in new notes of Rs 2,000 and Rs 500 along with Rs 100 and Rs 50 notes from the possession of the accused. While the five were not arrested, the income-tax department has seized the cash and issued a notice for their questioning,” said STF Additional Superintendent of Police S Anand. The gang used to charge 20 to 30 per cent commission for exchanging notes, said an STF official.
Following a tip-off, the STF team raided a cyber cafe near Kathauta Jheel crossing of Gomti Nagar. The five accused told the police that they were exchanging money they had received from various eastern UP districts, including Barabanki, Basti and Gorakhpur.The persons have been identified as Anoop Singh, Manoj Kumar Mishra, Qasim Ali, Shams Tabrez and Himanshu Vikram Singh. While Shams Tabrez belongs to Barabanki district, the others are from Lucknow. Anoop is employed as sales manager in a private insurance company, while Himanshu Vikram, Manoj Kumar and Qasim Ali were earlier employed in a private bank. Tabrez is a labour contractor in a private firm.
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What monkey fled with a bag containing evidence in it: Read full story
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.