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Maharashtra Congress demands farm loans waiver

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congress-flag-218x150Mumbai: The Congress’ Maharashtra unit on Saturday demanded a waiver of all farm loans on the lines of the assurance given by the BJP in poll-bound Punjab and Uttar Pradesh.In a memorandum to Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee General Secretary and spokesman Sachin Sawant said it was surprising and shocking that in its poll manifesto for Punjab and Uttar Pradesh, the Bharatiya Janata Party had promised farm loans waiver.

“In the 2014 elections in Maharashtra, the BJP had made a similar promise and assured it would not allow a single farmer’s suicide as part of its Vision 20-20. After two years, the picture has worsened and this state ranks among the worst in the country in terms of farmland suicides,” Sawant said.Not only has the number of suicides shot up, and even Osmanabad which was declared as a “zero suicide district” has reported more than 170 farmers ending their lives between August 2015-August 2016, he added.

He accused the government of completely ignoring the plight of the farmers who have been battered by successive periods of natural calamities like droughts, floods, unseasonal rains and hailstorms.Sawant said Maharashtra has the highest number of farmland suicides compared to Punjab and Uttar Pradesh, but this state is also economically stronger.

“Despite this, the state government has ignored repeated pleas by the Congress to announce a complete farm loans waiver. However, with an eye on the ongoing elections, the BJP has promised to write of farm loans in Punjab and UP, but not in Maharashtra,” he said, urging Fadnavis to immediately declare farm loans waiver for Maharashtra as assured before the 2014 elections.

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

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May 5, 2022

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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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