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“I felt Indian fans would kill me” Shoaib Akhtar recalls a light moment with cricket God Sachin Tendulkar
Former Pakistan paceman Shoaib Akhtar and Indian cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar have had plenty of battles on the field. The 2003 World Cup clash between India and Pakistan is one of many thrilling encounters between Tendulkar and Akhtar. There were however, some light moments off the field as well and the Pakistan speedster recalled one such incident with the Mumbai maestro Tendulkar at an awards function.
It was during an awards function during Pakistan’s 2007 tour of India when Akhtar tried to lift Tendulkar but failed. The Indian fell down but fortunately did not hurt himself. Akhtar recalled having felt afraid that he would never get an Indian visa and the fans would kill him.
“After Pakistan, if there is one country where I have received a lot of love, it is India. I have a lot of good memories from my visits to India. During the 2007 tour, there was an awards function. So obviously, there was a get-together after the function. As usual, I wanted to do something different. So, I tried to lift Sachin Tendulkar, just for fun. I managed to lift him but then he slipped from my hands. Tendulkar fell down, not that badly, but I thought to myself that ‘I am dead’,” Akhtar was quoted as saying by Sportskeeda website.
“I feared that if Sachin Tendulkar gets unfit or injured, I would never get an Indian Visa. The Indians would never allow me to come back to the country or would burn me alive,” one of the world’s fastest pace bowler admitted.
Akhtar added that Tendulkar was all right after falling down and later, the Indian batting legend hammered Pakistan in the bilateral series.
“When he fell down, I really thought I am done for life. I remember Harbhajan Singh and Yuvraj Singh were also there and they were telling me, ‘What are you doing man?’ And I responded saying ‘I don’t really know, it just happened.’ So, then I went and hugged Tendulkar and asked him if he was okay. Thankfully, he said he was fine,” Akhtar recalled
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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.