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Modi trying to undermine judiciary: Suresh Mehta

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gujarat Chief Minister Suresh MehtaAhmedabad : Former Gujarat Chief Minister Suresh Mehta has accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of trying to undermine the judiciary’s independence.

In a letter to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, made available to IANS, Mehta pulled up Jaitley for remarking that the judiciary was destroying the edifice of India’s legislature “step by step, brick by brick”.

“It is not the judiciary which is seeking to undermine the executive or the legislature,” Mehta, formerly in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), said in the letter.

“Rather, it is the executive, led by Modi, which is doing it on purpose, seeking to destroy the independence of judiciary in order to remove all the hurdles which he believes are coming in the way of establishing his autocratic rule.”

Mehta quoted Modi as telling a gathering of chief ministers and chief justices of high courts that courts “need to be cautious against perception-driven verdicts” and that “perceptions are often driven by five star activists”.

Mehta’s letter to Jaitley said that Modi’s efforts were to drive home the point that the judiciary should not go by the perception held by activists and others critical of the government.

He also alleged that the government does not appear “very keen to allow a smooth functioning of the Supreme Court collegium, which has the powers to appoint judges”.

Mehta said these were some instances where the Modi government was trying to undermine the judiciary’s independence.

Saying Jaitley may be finding the atmosphere under Modi “suffocating”, he said: “I have personally suffered such suffocation in 2002 when I was industries minister under Modi (in Gujarat).”

Once a leading BJP leader in Gujarat, Mehta was the chief minister from October 1995 to September 1996. He quit the BJP in December 2007 after opposing then Chief Minister Modi.

He joined the Gujarat Parivartan Party but quit that too when it merged with the BJP in February 2014.

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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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