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After Agra, ‘Sheroes Hangout’ finally makes its way in Lucknow

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Lucknow:  ‘Sheroes Hangout’, a cafe managed by all acid attack survivors, was inaugurated here on Tuesday on the occasion of International Women’s Day, the second such venture after a successful one in Agra in Uttar Pradesh.

The cafe in the state capital will be run by four acid attack survivors from Uttar Pradesh and one from Odisha.

The sprawling cafe provided space by the Uttar Pradesh Women Welfare Department on Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav’s intervention can accomodate up to 50 people and offers a variety of goodies, mostly snacks.

The Sheroes Hangout, run by Chhanv Foundation, an official said, was “basically a cafe which can be treated as a fooding place and that it is unconventional.

Abhilash, a member of the Anti-Acid Attack Movement, told IANS that the idea was to not only bring the acid attack survivors out of their depressed lives but also to assimilate them into the mainstream.

“We are very happy at the acceptance of our efforts in Agra, and Lucknow hopefully will go the same way,” he said even as the acid attack survivors fussed over minutest details of the inauguration function.

The five gutsy women – Rani, Farah, Reshma, Sunita and Aruna – were visibly pleased over their new venture, pointing out that their lives now had got “a new meaning” and that they wanted to be “just like everyone”!

Excited over the public response to the new hangout, they also at the same time expressed their worry over the open sale of acid at many places in Uttar Pradesh, despite a Supreme Court ban.

“We never thought this will happen to us. Now, we want this to never happen to any woman” said one of them on a sombre note.

The mood however soon became upbeat as a volunteer said that a real estate company had offered them space in their under-construction mall at Udaipur in Rajasthan to open another ‘Sheroes Hangout’.

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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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