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Rajnath Singh in Kashmir to discuss ongoing violence
Srinagar : Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh arrived here on Saturday morning on a two-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir to take stock of the prevailing law and order situation in the Valley.
A special BSF plane carrying the minister landed at the technical area of the Srinagar International Airport at 11.45 a.m.
A team of senior home ministry officials and Directors-General (DGs) of central paramilitary forces are accompanying Rajnath Singh during his visit.
He is scheduled to meet a number of local delegations, including representatives of various political parties, civil society members and traders on Saturday at the Nehru Guest House here to discuss the prevailing situation and find a way out of the current logjam.
Rajnath Singh will chair a high-level security meeting besides one-on-one interaction Governor N.N. Vohra and Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti.
The home minister, according to official sources, is likely to visit some areas in South Kashmir that have been worst hit by the ongoing cycle of violence in which 48 people have been killed.
The central government has already sent additional 3,000 troops of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) to help the state administration deal with the present law and order situation.
This is Rajnath Singh’s second visit to Kashmir during this month. He came here earlier on July 2 when eight CRPF troopers were killed by fidayeen militants in Pampore area of Pulwama district.
Rajnath Singh had also performed the Amarnath Yatra and paid obeisance at the Hazratbal shrine here during that visit.
The present cycle of violence started on July 9, a day after Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani was killed along with two of his associates in a gunfight with security forces in Kokernag area of Anantnag district.
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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.