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SC/STs have healthiest sex ratio in Goa

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Panaji: Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) in Goa lead the way as far as sex ratio is concerned, according to the Economic Survey 2014-15 tabled in the legislative assembly.

At a time when successive state governments have been working overtime to reduce the gender imbalance, the survey — tabled in the ongoing budget session by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led coalition government — said the sex ratio was also very healthy amongst the state’s Gowda and Kunbi tribes.

“It is interesting to observe that there exists a healthy ratio among the SCs in the state. The sex ratio in the state stood at 973 females per 1,000 males, while the sex ratio among the SCs is as high as 1,015 females per 1,000 males,” says the report, which documents the socio-financial health of the state.

Goa also takes prides in its high literacy percentage of 87.4.

Among the SCs, the Mangs and Mahars have a higher sex ratio of 1,046 and 1,042 females, respectively, for every 1,000 males.

The STs have a sex ratio of 1,046 per 1,000, among which Gowda and Kunbi tribes lead the charts at 1,083 and 1,049 females, respectively, per 1,000 males.

Goa’s sex ratio is above the national average of 940 females per 1,000 males, as per the 2011 census.

The coastal state, however, ranks 11th vis-a-vis sex ratio comparisons, with Kerala topping the list at 1,084 females per 1,000 males, and Daman and Diu languishing at the bottom with a ratio of 618 females per 1,000 males.

In a bid to incentivise birth of female offspring, successive governments in Goa, in the recent past, also started several cash-oriented schemes.

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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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