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E-rickshaws to ply Kolkata streets soon

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Kolkata: Hand-pulled rickshaws in the city will soon be a thing of the past, with their battery-powered modern equivalents to be seen soon on the streets.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has come up with a plan to rehabilitate around 6,000 rickshaw pullers and an equal number of owners in the city in a bid to upgrade the vehicle to a battery powered variant.

“The decision has been taken responding to the demand of those hand-rickshaw pullers and owners, who turned jobless with the ban of this mode of transport in this city,” Banerjee said.

The Left Front government had proposed to do away with the British-era vehicle passing the Calcutta Hackney Carriage (Amendment) Bill in 2006 on grounds of inhumanity towards the rickshaw pullers.

“Once they let us know, we will… buy the green rickshaws for them. Twelve thousand families will benefit directly from this,” Banerjee said.

State Transport Secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay will be working out the rehabilitation plan as well as the upgrade to battery powered vehicles.

Banerjee said rickshaw pullers’ unions had approached her for a solution over the ban and the decision was taken thereafter.

Termed green rickshaws, the battery powered vehicles have recently become a craze in the district of Howrah and its surroundings in West Bengal. In the districts, the vehicle is called “toto” in local dialect.

Parliament Monday cleared an amendment to the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, to include provisions for e-rickshaws paving the way to lift the ongoing ban on e-rickshaws in Delhi NCR as well as other regions.

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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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