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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath pays tribute to legendary sprinter Milkha Singh

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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday expressed grief over death of legendry sprinter Milkha Singh popularly known as the ‘Flying Sikh’. CM said that the athlete will always make the citizens of this country proud.

The void created in the world of sports by his death will be difficult to fill, Adityanath added.

Singh died on Friday after a month-long battle with COVID-19, during which he lost his former national volleyball captain wife Nirmal Kaur to the same ailment.

The Padma Shri awardee was 91 and is survived by his golfer son Jeev Milkha Singh and three daughters.

“He breathed his last at 11.30 pm,” a family spokesperson had told PTI in Chandigarh.

His condition had turned critical after he developed complications, including fever and dipping oxygen saturation levels, after a bout with COVID-19, in the Intensive Care Unit of the PGIMER hospital in the UT of Chandigarh.

He had contracted COVID-19 last month and tested negative for the virus on Wednesday, when he was shifted to the general ICU in another block of the hospital.

Singh had been “stable” before Thursday evening.

His 85-year-old wife, who had also been infected by the virus, passed away at a private hospital in Mohali on Sunday.

Milkha Singh was admitted to the PGIMER on June 3 after his oxygen levels dipped at home following treatment at the Fortis hospital in Mohali for a week.

The legendary athlete is a four-time Asian Games gold medallist and the 1958 Commonwealth Games champion, but his greatest performance remains the fourth-place finish in the 400m final of the 1960 Rome Olympics.

He also represented India in the 1956 and the 1964 Olympics and was bestowed the Padma Shri in 1959.

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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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