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Civic polls to be held in Rajasthan Saturday
Jaipur: All arrangements are in place across Rajasthan where voting for 46 civic bodies, including the Jaipur Municipal Corporation, will be held Saturday, officials here said.
“The counting of votes will take place Nov 25,” a senior official of the state election commission told IANS Friday.
Over 66 lakh electors, including over 29 lakh female voters, will exercise their franchise in these local-level elections. The voting, through EVMs, will be held from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. at 6,135 polling booths.
Besides Jaipur, the other municipal corporations where elections will be held include Jodhpur, Udaipur, Bikaner, Kota and Bharatpur.
The nagar parishads and nagar palikas where elections will be held Nov 22 include Beawar, Alwar, Pushkar, Banswara, Chabra, Barmer, Chittorgarh, Churu, Sri Ganganagar, Mount Abu and Sirohi.
A total of 7,391 candidates are in the fray for 1,680 wards in the 46 civic bodies where voting will take place Saturday.
Candidates of BJP in 10 wards and the Congress in six have already been declared elected unopposed.
Candidates of both BJP and the Congress are contesting in all the wards and both the parties have taken these polls seriously.
All the ministers in Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje’s cabinet, except her, took active part in canvassing.
From the Congress side, state unit president Sachin Pilot toured almost all the major areas to garner support for the party’s candidates.
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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.