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Counting begins in Kerala civic polls
Thiruvananthapuram: The rival fronts in Kerala appeared to be engaged in a neck and neck race as counting of votes began in the civic polls on Saturday.
The counting began at 8.00 a.m, with the results coming slowly, as the Left is marginally ahead of the ruling Congress led United Democratic Front (UDF).
The polls were held for 21,871 seats in 941 village, 152 blocks and 14 district panchayats besides 86 municipalities and six corporations.
As the results started to trickle in, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) led Left Democratic Front (LDF) appeared to make gains compared with the UDF.
In the 2010 polls, the UDF won 65 percent of the seats.
With the first results coming in as put out by the state election commission in the gram panchayat division of the polls, the LDF is leading in 130 while the UDF is leading in 110 seats.
In the block level polls, the LDF is ahead in 36, while the UDF is leading in 25.
Coming to the district panchayat the LDF is ahead in five with the UDF leading in two.
Regarding to the municipalities the LDF is leading in 31 and the UDF in 37.
In the six corporations, the LDF and UDF are ahead in three each.
The results saw the defeat of Usha Praveen, daughter of former chief minister E.K. Nayanar, in the Kochi corporation.
“The results have just started to come in, we will be the eventual winners,” said senior UDF leader Antony Raju.
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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.