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85 percent votes recorded in Tripura village polls

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Agartala: Almost 85 percent voting have been recorded in the village committee elections today, officials said.

A total of 645,840 people were eligible to vote in 528 of the 587 village committees under the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC).

The polling began at 8 a.m. and ended at 4 p.m without any major disruption. The vote count will be held on February 27 in 51 locations.

An official said that in many places tribal men and women braved rains to stand in long queues in their traditional attires to vote.

There were 1,262 polling stations, mostly in remote and mountainous areas. Of the 645,840 electorate, mostly tribals, 318,909 were women.

“The Left parties have been elected unopposed in 59 village committees,” State Election Commissioner G. Kameswara Rao said.

In all, 8,194 candidates from national and local parties contested the elections.

The ruling Left Front led by the Communist Party of India-Marxist has put up 3,697 candidates.

The village committees, falling in areas under the politically important TTAADC, are equivalent to Gram Panchayats outside the council areas.

The Left Front retained the 30-member tribal autonomous body for the third consecutive term last year.

The TTAADC governs two-third of Tripura’s 10,492 square km area.

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What monkey fled with a bag containing evidence in it: Read full story

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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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