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Journalist shot at in Uttar Pradesh

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9 years ago

October 20, 2015

Lucknow: A journalist was shot at by unidentified assailants who tried to rob him in Uttar Pradesh’s Kannauj district, police said on Tuesday. The scribe was critically wounded in the incident.

The incident took place on Monday evening when Deepak Gupta was on his way to pick up his wife from the primary school at Malkanthour where she works as a teacher.

While driving back home on his scooter, he was ambushed by motorbike-borne miscreants between Hasanpur and Chidharua, police said. The attackers shot at him at point bank range.

His wife raised an alarm following which Gupta was rushed to a hospital while the assailants sped away.

Police said it appeared to be a result of a robbery attempt.

“We are, however, trying to get the background of the victim and are finding out if he had enmity with someone,” an official said. In the past six months, there have been a series of attacks on journalists.

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What monkey fled with a bag containing evidence in it: Read full story

Published

2 years ago

May 5, 2022

Aaj Ki Khabar Desk Team

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.