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GCPA demands statehood for Cooch Behar West Bengal

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prabhuKolkata/Guwahati: Train services were disrupted as activists of the Greater Cooch Behar People’s Association (GCPA) squatted on railway tracks at the New Cooch Behar station on Monday demanding statehood for Cooch Behar region in northern West Bengal.Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu on Sunday had appealed to the squatters to let the trains move unhindered.

In Guwahati, an NFR official said at least 57 trains were cancelled and 16 diverted on Monday in view of the Jat agitation, and two rail blockades — one by Adivasis in Assam’s Kokrajhar district demanding ST status, and the second in Cooch Behar.

A number of long distance trains were cancelled, short terminated or stranded for hours due to the agitation, as GCPA activists lay siege to the tracks demanding C category state or union territory status for Cooch Behar and seeking dialogue with union home ministry officials to resolve the issue.

Movement of all up trains have been stalled in various stations of northern West Bengal, according to an official of the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR). Local passenger train services were suspended.

Meanwhile, GCPA chief Bangshi Badan Barman declared that the agitation would continue.

Benoy Thakur, a 29-year-old ailing passenger travelling to Kishanganj by the Kanchanjunga Express, died on Sunday due to lack of medical attention after his train was delayed by over 10 hours.

The Eastern Railway said it has cancelled four trains on Tuesday — 15959 Up Howrah-Dibrugarh Kamrup Express, 12345 Up Howrah-Guwahati Saraighat Express, 13141 Up Sealdah-New Alipurduar Teesta Torsa Express and 13147 Up Sealdah-New Cooch Behar Uttarbanga Express.

In Guwahati, NFR chief public relations officer (CPRO) Pranav Jyoti Sharma said long route trains were diverted through the Bongaigaon-Alipurduar-Siliguri-New Jalpaiguri route.

Hundreds of people under the banner of Adivasi National Convention Committee (ANCC) staged a rail blockade at the Kokrajhar railway station on Monday, leading to disruption of train movement in the region.

The blockade in Kokrajhar, however, ended in the afternoon.

“The blockade at Kokrajhar ended on Monday afternoon but the blockade at Cooch Behar is continuing. Train movement has been severely affected and we have been diverting long route trains through other routes without touching Cooch Behar,” said an NFR official.

“Security personnel have been deployed in and around the Kokrajhar station to prevent untoward incidents,” 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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