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Left helped BJP win 10 seats in Bihar: Chandy

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Thiruvananthapuram: By fielding over 220 candidates in Bihar, the Left helped the BJP to win 10 more seats which it would have otherwise lost, Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said on Thursday.

Taking a potshot at the Left parties for independently fighting the Bihar assembly polls, Chandy said the Left would soon describe its decision as another “historic blunder”.

The reference was to late CPI-M leader Jyoti Basu’s description of his party’s decision not to make him the prime minister of a United Front government in 1996 as a “historic blunder”.

“The decision to field their own candidates helped the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) and they have realised their folly,” Chandy said in a statement here.

“Now, the CPI-M, after failing to prevent communal forces from forging ahead, will say it was another case of historic blunder.”

Chandy will be among those who will attend the swearing-in ceremony of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday in Patna.

An alliance of six Left parties fielded candidates in 221 of the 243 assembly seats in Bihar and drew a blank. The BJP won only 53 seats while the Grand Alliance of Nitish Kumar bagged 178.

“Their (Left) strategy resulted in 10 more seats for the BJP. In these seats, it was found that the presence of Left candidates split (the anti-BJP) votes,” Chandy said.

“In many seats, the victory margin of BJP candidates was less than the votes secured by Left candidates,” he said.

“The CPI-M has always helped the BJP, be it in 1977 or in 1989… All this shows their failure to effectively counter fascist forces,” he said.

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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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