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Winter session of Odisha assembly set to be stormy

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Bhubaneswar: The winter session of the Odisha assembly, beginning on Tuesday, is all set to be stormy as opposition Congress and BJP are all geared up to raise issues, including farmers’ suicides, to put the government on the mat.

The government, on the other hand, has decided to highlight its achievements while trying to use its most tried and tested ‘central neglect’ issue to counter the opposition.

The legislature party of Odisha BJP on Sunday chalked out strategies for the ensuing assembly session. They decided to demand a white paper over the farmers’ suicides issue and the drought situation.

“This is one of the worst droughts in Odisha after 1965. Farmers continue to commit suicide. We are going to make drought and farmers’ suicide our main agenda in the assembly,” BJP lawmaker Pradeep Purohit said.

The party legislators also decided to take up other important issues, including ration card distribution and irregularities in National Food Security Act (NFSA) enrolment, plight of various types of teachers and the law and order situation in the state.

Leader of opposition and senior Congress leader Narasingh Mishra said the party would raise the farmers’ suicide and drought issues in the assembly and demand that the government make its stand clear over the deaths of farmers.

With the state government maintaining that no farmer has committed suicide due to crop loss and loan burden, Mishra said his party has already conducted an investigation by a reliable agency and it would be put forth in the assembly.

The ruling BJD, having 117 members out of 147 seats in the house, is all set to steam-roller the demands with its brute majority in the house.

“We are ready to discuss any issue to be raised by the opposition — be it the drought situation or law and order,” said BJD chief whip Ananta Das.

He said the party would hold its legislature party meeting on Monday to chalk out the strategy for the assembly session.

The winter session of the Odisha legislative assembly will begin on December 1 and end on December 26.

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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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