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Intense cold wave sweeps Himachal after snowfall

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Shimla: An intense cold wave left Himachal Pradesh reeling Monday with Manali recording a biting minus two degrees Celsius, a couple of days after the state received rains and snowfall.

The state capital Shimla, whimagesich received 29.3 cm of snowfall since Sunday, experienced its coldest night at 0.9 degree Celsius. Vehicular traffic remained disrupted for the second day in upper Shimla and also between Kullu and Manali.

Water in taps in residential areas located in Shimla’s US Club and Jakhu hills remained frozen due to the extreme cold.

The district administration has declared closure of all educational institutes in Shimla for two days from Monday.

Popular tourist spots near Shimla like Kufri and Narkanda received good spells of snow in the past two days. The tourist resort Kasauli in Solan district also received mild snowfall.

The Rohtang Pass (13,050 feet) and the Baralacha Pass (16,020 ft) – located on the Manali-Leh highway – witnessed heavy snowfall as well.

The resort town of Kalpa recorded a minimum temperature of minus 3.2 degrees Celsius, while it was 0.4 degree in Dalhousie and 5.9 degrees Celsius below the freezing point in Keylong in Lahaul-Spiti district.

Weather officials said the high hills of Kinnaur, , Kullu and Chamba districts witnessed heavy snowfall in the past two days.

A government spokesperson said the entire Kinnaur district and towns in Shimla district such as Narkanda, Jubbal, Kotkhai, Kumarsain, Kharapathar, Rohru and Chopal were cut off from the rest of the state.

Connectivity on the Kullu-Manali National Highway 21 remained snapped near Patlikuhl, some 20 km before Manali, officials said.

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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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