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Complaint filed against Panaji mayor for boat capsize

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Complaint filed against Panaji mayor for boat capsize

Panaji: A police complaint was filed on Monday against Panaji’s Mayor Surendra Furtado for allegedly being responsible for the capsizing of a boat in St. Inez Creek here during the demonstration of a mechanical weeding operation.

Social activist Aires Rodrigues said in his complaint filed at Panaji police station that the accident occurred because of overloading putting human lives in danger.

“The incident happened when the weeding machine mounted on a vessel turned turtle on account of weight imbalance which occurred because Furtado and others — despite being warned not to do so — boarded the vessel,” the complaint said.

The complaint has been lodged under sections 280, 287, 304 (a) and 511 of the Indian Penal Code.

Furtado had invited the media on Sunday to cover mechanical weeding of St. Inez creek here. The vessel overturned shortly after the mayor and other officials boarded it, throwing everyone onboard in water.

No one received any serious injury. Furtado said after the accident he was saved by “God’s grace”.

The video of the boat capsizing and the drenched mayor being hauled out from under the vessel went viral on social media.

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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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