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Physically-challenged Mumbaikar donates blood as X’mas present

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Physically-challenged Mumbaikar donates blood as X'mas present

Mumbai: There might be many gifts shared and given on Christmas-eve but what a 90 percent physically-challenged Mumbaikar did is something unusual still appreciable. He has donated blood for the 76th time and gave what he terms “a gift of life” as a Christmas present.

Prakash M. Nadar, 39, who was afflicted by polio during childhood, overcame his disabilities to launch a mission to eliminate blood shortage from the world with support of the Federation of Indian Blood Donors Organisations (FIBDO).

In this quest, he has been donating blood for the past 22 years regularly and made his 76th donation at the Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute of Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala.

“I donate blood regularly four times a year and now I am making an attempt to donate blood in each state of India to increase awareness of the importance of blood donation. Kerala is the 10th state where I have donated blood today and shall cover all Indian states in the next few years,” Nadar told media from Kerala.

He said FIBDO President K. P. Rajagopalan encouraged him in the all-India endeavour and also accompanied him to Kerala.

To mark Christmas eve, Nadar, attired in a Santa Claus costume, donated blood amid cheers by the hospital staffers and well wishers this afternoon.

Born in a middle class family and struck by polio at an early age, Nadar overcame all hurdles to attend a special school, Society for Education for the Crippled, in Agripada, south Mumbai.

Nadar took to the mission of donating blood after he saw his father pass away for need of blood. This spurred Nadar to join a NGO and propagate the importance of blood donation. He organised blood donation camps and himself took the lead by donating blood every three months, as stipulated under the law.

Besides, he has also donated seven times to people in dire need of blood and to blood banks, set up a NGO Pehchan Charitable Trust and inspired a team of 38 physically-challenged volunteers to assist him in the blood donation cause.

Nadar grabbed headlines two years ago when he completed a 42-km long swimathon from Gateway of India to Raigad and back on International Women’s Day (2013), adding to his impressive tally of 81 gold, 29 silver and 27 bronze medals bagged at various sporting meets across India.

“If a person like me who is 90 percent disabled can donate blood, why can’t all healthy people of India do…It can save many precious lives,” a proud Nadar said.

 

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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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