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Congress leader and Dalhousie MLA Asha Kumari gets one-year jail

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ashaShimla: A special court on Friday sentenced Congress leader and Dalhousie MLA Asha Kumari to one-year imprisonment and six others in a land grab case.

The Special Judge in Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh also handed over one-year jail terms each to two other accused and three-year jail each to four others along with Rs.5,000 fine in the case dating back to 1998.

The court, however, agreed to suspend the sentence for a month to enable time to the convicts to appeal in the high court against the conviction.

Asha Kumari is presently secretary of the All India Congress Committee.

A former municipal councillor Kuldeep Kumar lodged a complaint against Asha Kumari and her husband Brijender Singh and some revenue officials accusing them of tampering with revenue records to transfer 67.3 bighas of government land, including forest, near Dalhousie in their name.

The state Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau registered an FIR on December 15, 2001.

Thirteen people were made accused in the case, of which six people including Brijender Singh, have since died.

On Jan 4, 2005, a court in Chamba charged Asha Kumari, the then education minister, and others with grabbing over 60 bighas of forest land by tampering with government records and fabricating wills in connivance with revenue officials.

Following the framing of charges by the court, Asha Kumari resigned from the ministry.

Asha Kumari moved the high court that set aside the Chamba court order on the ground that she was denied an opportunity of proper hearing. But, in December 2011, the Supreme Court set aside the relief granted to the Congress leader by the Himachal Pradesh high court.

Confirming the order dated January 4, 2005 on framing of charge passed by the Special Judge, Chamba, a division bench of the apex court directed him to proceed further in accordance with law.

In August 2012, the Special Judge framed charges of cheating, criminal conspiracy and forgery against Asha Kumari and others.

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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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