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General Bipin Rawat Death: The helicopter was flying through dense fog say eyewitness

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  • India’s top military official, Gen. Bipin Rawat, and his wife were among 13 people killed in a helicopter crash on Wednesday.
  • Eyewitnesses told Reuters the helicopter appeared to fly unusually low and through heavy fog before crashing into a hillside.

India’s top military official died on Wednesday when a helicopter carrying him, his wife and 12 other passengers crashed in Southern India.

General Bipin Rawat and his wife, Madhulika Rawat, were en route to Defense Staff College in the town of Wellington in Tamil Nadu state with 12 other service personnel when the Indian Air Force helicopter crashed near Coonoor in Tamil Nadu. The IAF confirmed one person survived the crash, Capt. Varun Singh, and is being treated for injuries at the Military Hospital in Wellington.

Two eyewitnesses to the crash told Reuters that the helicopter seemed to be flying unusually low and under heavy fog before it crashed into the hillside.

A construction worker who lives near the crash told Reuters that he sees military helicopters fly through the area often, but, on Wednesday, the aircraft seemed “louder and closer.”

The bodies of those who died were brought to New Dehli on Thursday, where the general will be laid to rest with full military honors, according to India’s Defense Minister, Rajnath Singh.

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Rawat was an “outstanding soldier” and a “true patriot.”

“He greatly contributed to modernizing our armed forces and security apparatus,” Modi said in a tweet. “His insights and perspectives on strategic matters were exceptional. His passing away has saddened me deeply.”

Rawat was appointed to serve as India’s first chief of defense staff in 2019. He previously served as chief of army staff and had served in India’s military for more than 40 years.

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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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