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Man jailed for shouting slogans in Kerala assembly
Thiruvananthapuram: A man was Wednesday arrested and sent to jail for a day for shouting slogans from the visitors’ gallery of the Kerala assembly.
The incident – just the second in the assembly’s history – occurred during question hour.
The man in his early 60s shouted slogans in order to get the attention of the government over the delay in payment of pension to retired employees of the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC).
As soon as he started to shout, a security guard tried to take him away.
When the entire house turned to look at what was happening, Deputy Speaker Sakthan Nadar asked TV channels not to air the visuals.
Nadar said this was the first time since 1995 that such a thing happened.
He said it did not augur well and was an infringement of the rights of the assembly, and hence the man has to undergo simple imprisonment till the rising of the house Wednesday.
The assembly has the power to arrest a person.
The man got his entry pass signed by former transport minister Mathew T. Thomas, now an opposition legislator.
Pension payment to former KSRTC employees has been delayed for some time now because of the poor financial status of the state road transport corporation.
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What monkey fled with a bag containing evidence in it: Read full story
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.