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Andhra High Court ex-CJ to head Tripura rights panel

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Agartala:Former Andhra Pradesh High Court chief justice Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta will be the first chairman of the Tripura Human Rights Commission, an official said here on Tuesday.

“A three-member committee headed by Chief Minister Manik Sarkar has chosen the chairman and members of the Tripura Human Rights Commission,” a law department official said.

He said the committee at its meetings on October 19 and 26 decided to appoint Justice Sengupta as the chairman and former principal secretary of the state R.P. Meena and former law secretary Samiran Das as members of the commission.

Tripura assembly Speaker Ramendra Chandra Debnath and Leader of Opposition Sudip Roy Barman of the Congress are the members of the selection committee.

Justice Sengupta was sworn-in as the Lokayukta in Sikkim on May 18. He will quit this post to take up the new assignment.

Justice Sengupta was also the judge of the Uttarakhand High Court before being made the Andhra Pradesh High Court chief justice in May 2013.

He earlier practised at the Calcutta High Court.

Chief Minister Sarkar recently said here: “According to rules, the commission chairman has to be a retired Supreme Court judge or retired high court chief justice. For many years, we looked for such a retired judge but failed.”

“In 2007, the state government constituted the Police Accountability Commission, with provisions to protect the human rights of the state’s people. Cases of human rights violations are extremely low in Tripura,” said Sarkar, who holds the home portfolio.

The Supreme Court recently said it was the statutory duty of the state governments to set up human rights commissions, and it was a matter of regret that despite the National Human Rights Commission’s strong and repeated calls state commissions have not been set up.

The court directed the governments in Tripura, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Arunchal Pradesh, Meghalaya and Nagaland to set up these commissions.

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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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