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Defying swine flu, Mumbaikars revel in Holi colours

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Mumbai : Mumbai and Maharashtra erupted in a riot of colours with thousands of revellers trooping out to celebrate Holi, the festival of colours, cocking a snook at the ongoing swine flu (H1N1) epidemic in many cities on Friday.

The celebrations started at daybreak with loud music blaring in various housing complexes, public places and special venues as people went about applying colour to each other, hugging and wishing each other ‘Happy Holi’.

This year, swine flu has claimed nearly 180 lives in the state, and affected nearly 2,150 patients, as the state went on a high alert following the unseasonal rains and chilly weather since last week.

At the Holika on Thursday night, people offered special prayers and burnt effigies of H1N1 in the Holi fire.

Special invitee Holi festivities were organised in some places where top Bollywood and Marathi film stars, models, glamour world personalities and movers and shakers of society let their hair down and immersed themselves in multi-colours.

Several five-star hotels in the city also lured patrons with their celebrations and also offered special Holi snacks and buffets, which attracted the wealthy crowd.

In contrast, boisterous Holi with loud music was seen in downmarket localities and slums with the residents enthusiastically joining the celebrations and partaking of all-time favourites like ‘vada paav’, vegetable ‘pakodas’ and ‘chaat’ snacks as accompaniment.

Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) vice-president Vageesh Saraswat organised a unique Holi by inviting a group of terminally ill juvenile cancer patients from the Tata Memorial Cancer Hospital who interacted with several film and television stars at the venue in Powai.

Mumbai Police have ensured tight security all over the city, including near the railway lines, for a safe and event-free Holi.

Large groups of revellers also took to the sea beaches dotting Mumbai like Chowpatty, Juhu, Shivaji Park, Versova, Gorai, Uttan, Arnala and other places for sea-side celebrations in the open.

Reports of enthusiastic Holi celebrations came from places like Thane, Pune, Nagpur, Kolhapur, Nashik and other cities, towns and villages where revellers braved the winter chill to celebrate both dry and wet colours of the festival.

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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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