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Journalists should rise above prejudices: Jung

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New Delhi: Delhi Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung on Thursday urged journalists to rise above prejudices that plague humankind while discharging their responsibilities.

“Journalists have no religion, no caste, no country and ethnicity. They should simply see themselves as human beings, as their role is critical in awakening the conscience of human kind,” Jung said during a meet to discuss trends and challenges of media and humanitarian action.

Stressing on the role of the media, Jung said: “The reports filed by journalists from the field often become resources which are used to write history, and as a result, journalists are actually contemporary historians who must, therefore, ensure that they rise above primordial sentiments in discharging their obligations,” he added.

The meet was organised by the Nelson Mandela Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution of the Jamia Millia Islamia and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in New Delhi.

Reporters from Bangladesh, Bhutan, Indonesia, Thailand, Nepal, India, Afghanistan, Japan, Sri Lanka and Myanmar attended the meet.

More than 15 senior reporters from 10 Asian countries are attending the meeting in New Delhi to discuss trends and challenges of media and humanitarian action.

Some of the topics that are being discussed in the meeting, which ends on Friday, include reporting on humanitarian needs of populations in remote areas in times of natural disasters, refocusing on forgotten conflicts, post-traumatic stress disorders, and reporting the impact of emergencies on vulnerable populations.

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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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