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Srinagar-Jammu highway stays closed for third day

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Srinagar: The strategic Srinagar-Jammu national highway remained closed for the third consecutive day on Tuesday even though road clearance operations were started after rain and snowfall stopped in the morning.

Heavy snowfall in the Banihal sector and landslides triggered by rain in the Ramban sector of the over 300-km Natioal Highway No.1A hampered road clearance operations the past three days, forcing closure of the Kashmir Valley’s only surface link with the rest of the country.

“The weather has improved since morning and road clearance operations have started.”

“There will, however, be no traffic on the highway today (Tuesday) and intending travellers must contact the traffic control rooms in Jammu and Srinagar before undertaking the journey tomorrow,” a senior official of the traffic department told IANS here.

Railway authorities also started track clearance operations on Tuesday morning and the Baramulla-Banihal rail service is expected to be resumed in the afternoon.

With the improvement in visibility, authorities at the Srinagar International Airport said they are expecting resumption of air traffic to and from the valley.

The landlocked valley remained cut off from the rest of the country on Monday as both surface and air traffic had to be suspended because of heavy snowfall in the valley and rainfall in the Jammu region.

Authorities are also working to restore electricity supply in areas where snowfall uprooted electric poles and disrupted power supply on Monday.

Another problem faced by the people here is waterlogging. Roads, lanes and bylanes in markets and residential areas are all under water.

This has been causing hardships to both pedestrians and motorists in the city during the last three days.

All the drains in the city, which has a population of 1.3 million, got choked by unprecedented floods in September last year as well.

 

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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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