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‘Kirtans’ irk Kerala minister on yoga day
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Health Minister K.K. Shailaja was irked when Sanskrit kirtans were rendered during the International Yoga Day celebrations here on Tuesday.
She expressed her displeasure to the officials who had organised the event, part of the state-wide function held at the Central Stadium here, and pointed out that yoga doesn’t belong to any particular religion.
The minister added that yoga is also practised by people who do not believe in any religion.
Shailaja was the chief guest for the event and took part in the yoga session along with former Health Minister and Congress legislator V.S. Sivakumar.
What irked the minister was the rendering of the Sanskrit kirtans after she said India is a secular country.
The organisers of the event said they followed the protocol of the event that is being done across the country.
Reacting to this, Kerala Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Kummanem Rajasekheran asked the minister to come clean and say which group of people she wanted to appease through this.
“We are baffled on why the minister was showing this much intolerance and it was totally unwarranted,” said Rajasekheran.
Shailaja, however, later said she never asked for an explanation from the officials on the rendering of ‘kirtans’ .
Similar yoga sessions were held across the state and included the Raj Bhavan where Kerala Governor P. Sathasivam took part.
The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) is holding its yoga session on Tuesday evening at Kollam which would see the participation of Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan.
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What monkey fled with a bag containing evidence in it: Read full story
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.