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Rain brings life in Agra to halt
Agra : Intermittent showers along with spells of heavy downpour brought life to a grinding halt in Agra, cutting off several localities as knee-deep water inundated city roads, officials said on Sunday.
“We have not seen such heavy rain in July for many years. Some parts are totally deluged in rain water,” said Vijay Nagar colony resident Sudhier Gupta.
In Goverdhan, the crowds of pilgrims gathered for the annual five-day Mudiya Poonau festival faced lots of difficulties while performing the 21-km parikrama (circumambulation) of the mount.
Lord Krishna is said to have held aloft the holy hill on his little finger for the ‘Brajbasis’, the people of Braj, to take shelter under during a downpour unleashed by Lord Indra, the god of rain.
“This year, the arrangements have been generally poor and wanting, compared to last year and pilgrims are facing lots of hardships,” said Pavan Gautam, an activist.
The railways have introduced a few special trains while the Uttar Pradesh State Roadways has deployed over a thousand buses to ferry pilgrims to the holy hill.
Mudiya Poonau parikrama and the puja in Goverdhan annually attracts over 10 million pilgrims.
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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.