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Trinamool heads towards big win in Bengal civic polls

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Kolkata: West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress is headed for a landslide victory in the three civic bodies where vote count is under way on Saturday.

The Trinamool candidates were ahead of their rivals in Bidhannagar and Asansol Municipal Corporations in North 24 Parganas and Burdwan districts respectively.

The Trinamool also annihilated the opposition in the 16 wards of the erstwhile Bally municipality in Howrah district where election was necessitated after the civic body was amalgamated with the Howrah Municipal Corporation.

At Bidhannagar, in the north eastern fringes of Kolkata, Trinamool candidates were ahead in 33 of the 41 wards. The Communist Party of India-Marxist led Left Front led in four wards, and the Congress in two. An independent nominee led in one ward.

In Asansol, the Trinamool candidates have established leads in 65 wards, the Left was ahead in 16 and the Bharatiya Janata Party in five. The total number of wards is 106.

The Trinamool candidates have left their opponents far behind in all the 16 wards of Bally municipality.

The opposition had alleged violence and rampant rigging in the October 3 polls, and demanded repoll in all the words of the three civic bodies.

There was high drama as State Election Commissioner (SEC) S.R. Upadhyay deferred the vote count slated for October 7 and then put in his papers on Tuesday allegedly succumbing under pressure from political parties.

The state government appointed transport secretary Alapan Bandopadhyay as the interim commissioner, who ordered repoll on October 9 in 11 booths – 9 in Bidhannagar and two in Asansol.

Angry opposition parties boycotted the repoll.

A case was also filed challenging Bandopadhyay’s appointment, and the Calcutta High Court on Friday directed that all steps initiated by the SEC under the new interim commissioner would be subject to the court’s final verdict on the writ petition, but turned down a plea to give any interim stay.

Justice Dipankar Datta sought affidavits from the West Bengal government and the SEC backing their observations by November 17. The petitioner Amitava Majumdar was directed to file the affidavit in opposition by November 19.

November 23 has been fixed as the next day of hearing.

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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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