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Uttar Pradesh government moves to ensure road safety

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Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government will take a slew of measures to boost road safety and cut down on mishaps in the state, an official said on Tuesday.

Chief Secretary Alok Ranjan has asked officials to prepare an action plan to prevent road mishaps on 1,200 accident-prone spots across the state, which have already been identified.

The public works department will repair roads and minimise curves on roads on a priority basis. In view of the increasing traffic in Lucknow, the inspector general of traffic police has been asked to prepare a plan to control traffic in the state capital.

The chief secretary has directed local urban bodies and officials concerned to remove encroachments and illegal hoardings from roadsides.

District Magistrates (DMs) have been asked to provide land for setting up regional centres for proper training of drivers.

Automated driving testing tracks would be established in 35 districts of Uttar Pradesh, including in Kanpur, Gorakhpur, Lucknow, Azamgarh and Kannauj by utilisation of the Road Safety Fund during the 2015-16 fiscal.

Transport Commissioner K. Ravindra Naik said that the working plan of Rs.25 crore approved for the current year would include Rs.6.60 crore for accident-prone spots, Rs.1.10 crore for purchasing publicity vans, Rs.1.50 crore for construction of automatic driving testing tracks, Rs.1.75 crore for driver testing tracks, Rs.2.85 crore for building fitness pit, Rs.70 lakh for mobile checking equipment, Rs.75 lakh for interceptors and Rs.25 lakh for evaluation and inspection of road safety measures.

Similarly, money would be spend on publicity of traffic rules, training, documentary films, partnership of voluntary agencies and breathalysers for checking drunken driving.

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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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