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Cold wave tightens grip on Jammu and Kashmir
Srinagar: The intense cold wave tightened its grip on Jammu and Kashmir Saturday as the cities of Srinagar and Jammu recorded their lowest temperatures of the season.
“The minimum temperature dropped to the season’s lowest in Srinagar today at minus 5.6 degrees Celsius,” an official of the Met department told here.
“The minimum temperature recorded in Jammu city today was 2.4 degrees which is also the lowest recorded this season so far.”
“Gulmarg, Pahalgam, Leh and Kargil recorded minus 4.7, 7.4, 16.4 and 14.5 degrees Celsius respectively as the minimum temperature.”
The official said the cold wave conditions are likely to intensify across Jammu and Kashmir in the next 48 hours as the weather is expected to remain dry during this period.
It has not snowed in the plains of the Valley so far this season, yet highly slippery road conditions at many places in and outside Srinagar resulted in major problems for motorists in the morning.
Almost all the water bodies in the Valley including the Dal Lake in Srinagar are partially frozen these days.
Local boatmen are finding it difficult to travel across the frozen waters of the lakes in the Valley.
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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.