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CPI-M pulls up Achuthanandan

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Thiruvananthapuram: The CPI-M Tuesday pulled up party leader and former Kerala chief minister V.S. Achuthanandan for defending his then aide arrested for setting ablaze the memorial to a communist veteran.

After a lull in intra-party conflict, the state unit of the Communist Party of India-Marxist criticised Achuthanandan for his stand on the destruction of the memorial to P. Krishna Pillai.

Of the five named in the case, prime accused Litheesh P. Chandran was a staff member of Achuthanandan when he was chief minister from 2006 to 2011.

Initially, Achuthanandan termed the attack “heinous and pre-planned”. But when Chandran and his close friends were named as accused, he termed it a conspiracy by police and asked the CPI-M to condemn the police.

The CPI-M Tuesday approved the sacking of the party members accused of desecrating the monument at Alappuzha.

“It was wrong on the part of Achuthanandan to have glorified Chandran, which has caused a dent to the party’s image. He should stop airing such remarks in public,” a party statement said.

Chandran was arrested this month and released on bail. The others got anticipatory bail from the Kerala High Court.

Pillai was a founder-leader of the communist movement in Kerala. He died of snake bite Aug 19, 1948 while he was in hiding.

The CPI-M also gave a clean chit to Alappuzha party veteran T.K. Palani who, Achuthanandan alleged, had a role in the attack on the memorial.

Tuesday’s statement comes ahead of the CPI-M state conference where it will elect a new state party secretary to succeed Pinarayi Vijayan who has completed three terms.

Vijayan and Achuthanandan are known to lead rival camps in the Kerala CPI-M.

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

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May 5, 2022

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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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