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Former CM’s daughter takes on Congress stalwart

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saradaParavur (Kerala) : The daughter of one of Kerala’s most respected former chief ministers has taken on veteran Congress legislator in assembly polls here in what is widely seen as a triangular contest.

Sarada Mohan of the Communist Party of India (CPI) and V.D. Sateeshan of the Congress are the two main candidates in Paravur, which is different from the Paravur where a temple tragedy this month claimed over 110 lives.

Sarada Mohan’s father, the late P.K. Vasudevan Nair, was chief minister for less than a year in 1978-79. After he quit, the down to earth political leader won innumerable hearts by taking a bus to go home.

The 59-year-old woman, who lived in Bangalore for close to three decades, quit her job as a teacher to take forward her father’s legacy. She won from the Kalady ward in Ernakulam district panchayat last year.

“Development in this constituency has stagnated,” she says at election rallies big and small. “Nothing much has happened here in the past 15 years.”

Sateeshan, who is looking at a fourth consecutive win from Paravur, located 30 km from Kochi, Kerala’s commercial capital, does not agree of course.

The three-time legislator, 51, is vice president of the ruling party but he doesn’t mind pointing out errors in governance.

Velapally Natesan, the Hindu Ezhava leader and founder of the Bharat Dharma Jana Sena (BDJS) party, an ally of the Bharatiya Janata Party, has fielded Hari Vijayan, 49, to ensure that Sateeshan loses.

But Sateeshan is not bothered. “During elections, people will vote, not social group leaders.”

In 2011, the CPI fielded its state secretary and former Lok Sabha member Panniyan Ravindran but Satheesan won by 11,349 votes.

All three contestants have finished the first round of campaigning by visiting the main market places and junctions and will now focus on family meetings.

The Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) counts Ernakulam district as one of its strongest areas. In 2011, it won 11 of the 14 assembly seats. This is one reason Satheesan may be breathing easy.

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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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