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Farmers committed suicide due to personal reasons: Odisha Minister

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Pradeep Maharathy

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Agriculture Minister Pradeep Maharathy on Wednesday said farmers in the state committed suicide due to personal reasons and no farmer took the extreme step because of crop loss or loan burden.

“The district collectors and SPs have conducted inquiries into the allegations of farmers’ suicides in the state. According to the reports, the farmers have committed suicide due to personal, family, health and other reasons while no farmer committed suicide due to farm-related problems,” Maharathy told the assembly.

Replying to a question by Biju Janata Dal (BJD) legislator Prafulla Samal, he said there was no proposal with the government for inquiry by an expert committee into the farmers’ deaths.

The state government has received report of death of 122 farmers so far from different sources, he added.

The minister said the government has allocated Rs.113.20 crore from Natural Disaster Relief Fund to 25 districts while the government has already disbursed Rs.44.57 crore to 1.12 lakh farmers to mitigate the drought situation in the state.

In order to overcome the situation, he said the state government has already announced Rs.1,000 crore package while it has sought assistance from the central government.

It is to be noted that the state government has sought a central assistance of Rs.2,199 crore to deal with the drought situation in the state.

Recently, the government submitted an additional memorandum seeking an assistance of Rs.512 crore from the National Disaster Response Fund while earlier, it had sought an assistance of Rs.1,687 crore through an interim memorandum.

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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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