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BJP to play Smart City card in Coimbatore

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BJPCoimbatore : The BJP is using the ‘Smart City’ programme as a cure for all the civic problems in this industrial city in the Tamil Nadu assembly polls, said one of the party’s senior leaders and a candidate.

Coimbatore, about 500 km from Chennai, has been selected under the central government’s Smart City programme.

“Coimbatore as a whole and my constituency Coimbatore South is facing several civic issues. The outer ring road project is getting delayed. I am pointing out that the civic issues will be solved under the Smart City programme,” Vanathi Srinivasan, who is vice president of the BJP’s Tamil Nadu unit, told IANS.

“I will also come out with a manifesto for my constituency. We are getting the feedback from the people. They are being studied now,” she said.

According to her, there are around 250,000 voters in the Coimbatore South constituency.

“I am appealing to the middle and the upper middle class to come out in large numbers and vote in the elections,” she said.

The ruling AIADMK instead of fielding the sitting legislator has fielded Amman K. Arjunan.

For the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Srinivasan is one of the strong hopefuls to enter the state assembly this year.

The BJP is contesting in all the 10 assembly constituencies in Coimbatore district and is confident of winning seven seats.

“We are focusing on prohibition, corruption in the AIADMK rule and local issues,” said C.R. Nandakumar, the BJP candidate for Singanallur constituency of the district.

However AIADMK’s Arjunan, 58, dismisses BJP’s hopes of winning seven seats as wishful thinking.

“In 2011 assembly elections BJP got over 5,500 votes in Coimbatore South. The party is not in my reckoning at all,” he said.

He said Srinivasan is running a hi-tech campaign whereas his style is a down-to-earth door-to-door campaign.

“The people themselves list out the schemes like free fan, mixer/grinder, laptop (computer) to students and others wherever I go for campaigning. This time we are confident of doubling the victory margin to around 54,000 votes,” Arjunan said.

Tamil Nadu votes on May 16 to elect the 234-member assembly

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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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