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Maneka Gandhi to host special screening of ‘Lion’

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Mumbai : Union Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi will host a special screening of the Oscar-nominated film “Lion” here. The invite list includes Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the movie’s distributor has said.

Cabinet ministers and other dignitaries will be invited for the screening later this week before the film’s release on Friday, read a statement.

“We are glad that a person of such repute such as Maneka Gandhi has expressed her desire to host a screening of ‘Lion’. It’s for a wise cause and thought and currently we are in process of setting up the screening in the coming week in Delhi,” Avinaash Jumani, CEO at Pictureworks (film’s distributor in India), said in a statement.

Gandhi, an animal rights activist and environmentalist, recently achieved success in tracking down 100 children and she is going to reunite them with their parents next month.

The fact that it finds resonance with the story of “Lion” — about an Indian boy who when separated from his biological family, is adopted by an Australian couple in Australia and then years later, he finds his lost family using Google Earth — makes it apt for Gandhi to host the screening.

Even the makers of “Lion” had started The #LIONHEART Campaign for helping street children, by joining hands with India-based NGO Magic Bus, Childline and Railway Children.

Directed by Garth Davis, the movie is based on Saroo Brierley’s best-selling autobiography “A Long Way Home”. It features child actor Sunny Pawar, with Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman in pivotal roles.

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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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