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President should set up panel on judges’ issue: Congress MP

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Panaji: Legislations involving the higher judiciary should be handled by the President of India with help from eminent jurists from outside the judicial system, Congress parliamentarian Shantaram Naik said on Friday.

“In such situations, the President should be empowered to constitute a bench of eminent jurists, outside the judicial framework, to decide the fate of legislations in which judges’ interests are involved,” said Naik.

He was chairman of a parliamentary standing committee on personnel, public grievances, law and justice and is a Rajya Sabha member from Goa.

He also said that the issue of “nepotism” in judiciary was a matter of concern.

Naik’s comments came on the day the Supreme Court declared the National Judicial Appointments Commission unconstitutional and void and upheld the erstwhile collegium system for appointment of judges in the higher judiciary.

“Parliament unanimously echoed its opinion that there was nepotism of serious nature in the appointment of judges, and that in no other country judges appoint judges,” Naik said.

“Parliament has to retrospect and try to restore the powers which it should enjoy as the primary constitutional body, as entrusted by the framers of the Constitution,” the parliamentarian said in a statement.

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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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