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Jammu-Srinagar highway opened for one-way traffic

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Srinagar: The Jammu-Srinagar highway was opened on Tuesday for one-way traffic after remaining closed for two days due to landslides and snowfall along the road.

“The Jammu-Srinagar highway has been opened for one-way traffic today (Tuesday),” a senior traffic official told here.

“Vehicles will move from Jammu to Srinagar but no vehicle will be allowed to move from the opposite direction,” he said.

Landslides in Ramban district and snowfall in Banihal sector of the over 300-km-long road forced its closure on Sunday. The only road link between the Kashmir Valley and the rest of the country remained shut for two days.

All essential supplies, including petroleum products, cooking gas and edibles are made available to the valley through the Jammu-Srinagar highway.

Temporary closure of the road leads to hoarding and profiteering by traders in the valley.

With the improvement in the weather conditions, it is expected that the highway would soon be opened for two-way traffic.

Authorities of the state power development department (PDD) said on Tuesday over 70 percent of the electric supply has been restored till Monday evening in the valley.

“We are hopeful of restoring all our system and distribution by today (Tuesday) afternoon,” a senior PDD engineer told IANS.

Inter-districts road connectivity has also been restored.

Season’s heaviest snowfall during the last three days uprooted electric poles and triggered faults in the electric supply across the valley.

The weather office said Jammu and Kashmir is expected to have good weather during the next 15 days.

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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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