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Three held in Bengal for lynching student

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Kolkata: Three people have been arrested for lynching a student inside a college in West Bengal, police said on Saturday.

The incident took place at Sabang Sajanikanta Mahavidyalaya in West Midnapore district on Friday when Krishna Prasad Jana, a BA student, was beaten to death during a clash between two groups of students.

“Six people were named in the complaint and last night (Friday), we arrested three of them. We are looking for the rest three,” a police officer said.

While the officer refused to comment on their political affiliation, he said the arrested trio were former students of the college.

The incident has taken a political colour with the opposition Congress accusing the Trinamool Congress students’ wing of orchestrating the attack while West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as well as Education Minister Partha Chatterjee attributed the death to internal feud among the Congress affiliated Chhatra Parishad activists.

An eye witness and complainant in the case Somen Ganguly claimed Jana was killed for his refusal to felicitate state minister Soumen Kumar Mahapatra.

“When Jana refused to go and join the felicitation of the minister, a group of 30-40 students attacked him with sticks and rods. We want those who killed him be given exemplary punishment,” said Ganguly.

While Mahapatra has denied the charges, former minister and Congress leader Manas Bhuniya indicted the Trinamool Congress Chhatra Parishad for the lynching.

Besides the Congress affiliated Chhatra Parishad observing a students’ strike on Saturday, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) backed Students’ Federation of India (SFI) is overseeing a ‘condemnation day’ to protest the incident.

The SFI has also called for a strike in schools and colleges.

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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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