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Shutdown in Karnataka over water project

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Bengaluru: Stray incidents of violence marked a shutdown in Karnataka on Saturday demanding the early implementation of a canal project to supply river water to the state’s parched districts.

“Barring stray incidents of burning tyres at traffic junctions and forcible closure of shops in some areas by pro-Kannada activists, the shutdown was peaceful,” a police officer told.

However, the 12-hour dawn-to-dusk disrupted normal life in cities and towns across the state because of the absence of public and private transport and closure of shops, markets, hotels, restaurants, malls, petrol bunks and cinema theatres.

As a precautionary measure, government-run and private schools and colleges also remained closed, with many of them declaring holiday on Friday.

Thousands of passengers arriving in Bengaluru from outstations in trains and inter-state buses earlier in the day were stranded at railway stations and bus terminals.

Even at the Bengaluru airport at Devanahalli, 40 km away from the city, hundreds of passengers were held up on arrival, as taxis did not operate though their numbers were less due to Eid on Friday and weekend holiday.

The canal project involves building barrages across Kalasa and Banduri tributaries of Mahadayi river to divert 7.6 tmc (thousand million cubic) feet of water to Malaprabha river for supplying it to the three northern districts, about 500 km from Bengaluru.

As the 77 km-long Mahadayi or Mandovi river flows to Goa and Maharashtra from Karnataka on the west coast into the Arabian Sea, the former has been objecting over sharing its water, as 52 km of it stretch is in its state and is a lifeline for its people, flora and fauna.

Spearheading the 12-hour strike, regional political outfit Kannada Chalavali Vatal Paksha president Vatal Nagaraj joined hundreds of supporters, including state protection group activists at Town Hall in Bengaluru and took out a rally to Freedom Park, seeking intervention of the prime minister for implementing the project.

Security has been beefed up across the state and additional forces have been deployed in cities like Bengaluru, Mysuru, Hubballi-Dharward, Belagavi and Gadag to prevent any untoward incident.

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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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