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Heavy rains to lash Bengal
Kolkata: Heavy rain may occur at isolated places in West Bengal, with the depression formed over the Bay of Bengal intensifying into a cyclone, the met department said on Thursday.
“The depression over Bay of Bengal, which moved northwestwards during the last nine hours, has intensified into a cyclonic storm ‘Komen’ and lay centred at about 300 km in the east-southeast of Kolkata,” the met department said.
“The system would cross Bangladesh coast by afternoon today (Thursday). The cyclonic storm, after its landfall, would move west-northwestwards and weaken gradually.”
The Met Office said as a result of the cyclonic storm, heavy rain (724 cm) may occur at isolated places in West Bengal over the next 72 hours.
Heavy rains have also been predicted at isolated places in Bihar, and Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri districts of sub-Himalayan West Bengal.
Fishermen have been warned not to venture close to the West Bengal coast and the Andaman and Nicobar coast in the next 72 hours.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee cut short her Britain visit in the wake of the cyclone.
“Receiving feedback on cyclone preparedness as we wait for our flight in Delhi to Kolkata. We pre-poned our trip because of situation,” Banerjee said on Twitter during the day.
At least 10 people were injured and over 400 houses damaged due to storms raging across the districts of North 24 Parganas, Howrah and Nadia on Wednesday.
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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.