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Himachal assembly winter session begins Dec 5

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Shimla: The eight-day winter session of the Himachal Pradesh legislative assembly will begin Dec 5 in Dharamsala town, an official said Thursday.

The session with seven sittings will end Dec 12, a government spokesperson told IANS.

This time, the number of sittings has been increased as the last session was adjourned sine die prematurely due to a stand-off between the treasury and opposition benches.

The 24-day monsoon session, which began Aug 6, was scheduled to continue till Aug 29 with 11 more sittings yet to go.

Speaker B.B.L. Butail said the Vidhan Sabha in Dharamsala has been made web-based like the assembly in Shimla.

Replies to questions, he said copies of bills and reports would be provided online.

The Rs.8.12 crore ($1.3 million) central government funded e-Vidhan project, the country’s first pilot project that started in the last session, has provisions of e-voting and online communication between government functionaries, besides video conferencing, digital video recording and web streaming.

“We could annually save Rs.15 crore as both the assemblies go online,” Butail told IANS.

In a recent letter to Butail, Union Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the central government would soon convene a national conference of information technology ministers and secretaries of the states to discuss the Himachal model of e-Vidhan Sabha.

Prasad has invited Butail and his team to make a presentation about the success of the project.

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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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