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SP, BSP candidates emerge victorious in UP council polls

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Lucknow: As results for the 12 state legislative council seats were announced today and all the eight candidates of the ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) and three of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) emerged victorious.

The polls were held earlier in the day. Members of the state assembly form the electoral college for the state council elections. The Samajwadi Party holds the majority in the assembly.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) could manage only one seat and its another candidate lost. It, however, managed 10 extra votes from other parties.

Earlier in the day, 399 of the 403 legislators cast their votes.

The BSP’s winning candidates are Pradeep Jatav, Naseemuddin Siddiqui and Dharmveer Ashok, while the ruling SP’s winners were Ramesh Yadav, Ahmed Hasan, Sarojini Agarwal, Saheb Singh Saini, Virendra Singh Gujjar, Ram Jatan Rajbhar, Dr Ashok Bajpayi and Ashu Malik.

The BJP’s Laxman Acharya won while its second candidate Daya Shankar Singh lost.

The elections were held as both the BJP and the BSP fielded one candidate more than what their strength in the lower house of the state legislature could guarantee.

The Congress and the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) did not field any candidates.

While the Congress issued a whip for its party legislators to vote in favour of the Samajwadi Party (SP), Ajit Singh’s RLD decided to go along with Mayawati’s BSP.

The Congress support had virtually ensured, before the voting, that all eight SP candidates will sail through. All eyes were on how the extra candidate each of the BSP and BJP would fare.

While the BSP managed extra votes, the BJP failed to garner the desired numbers for its second candidate’s victory but managed 10 extra votes.

Reacting to the poll results, the state BJP president Laxmikant Vajpai said the results exposed the nexus of the BSP, SP, Congress and the RLD.

“What we have been always alleging about this unholy nexus has come true and has been exposed,” he said while pointing out these parties were wondering how the BJP got 10 extra votes.

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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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