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HC blocks transfer of ED officer who quizzed Majithia

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Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana High Court Wednesday put on hold the transfer of Enforcement Directorate (ED) officer Niranjan Singh on a petition of a lawyer here.

Niranjan Singh, an assistant director with the ED who was investigating money laundering allegations against Punjab’s Revenue Minister Bikram Singh Majithia, was Friday transferred from Jalandhar to Kolkata by his department.

Singh recently questioned Majithia for over four hours along with other ED officials in Jalandhar following allegations of Majithia’s links with three Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) who were being investigated for money laundering connected to a Rs.6,000-crore international synthetic drugs racket busted by Punjab Police in 2013.

Majithia is the younger brother of union Minister Harsimrat Badal. Harsimrat is the wife of Punjab’s Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal.

Punjab Congress president Partap Singh Bajwa and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leadership in Punjab recently slammed the Modi government at the Centre and the Parkash Singh Badal government in Punjab for the ED officer’s transfer.

Bajwa alleged that the Centre and state governments had “conspired to hush up the investigations against Majithia and other Akali leaders by transferring the ED officer mid-way in the probe”.

The ED is under union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, who had made Majithia his campaign in-charge in parliamentary elections in the Amritsar Lok Sabha constituency, which Jaitley lost, in April-May last year.

ED officials recently complained to their senior officials in Delhi that their phones were being allegedly tapped by Punjab Police and they were being pestered for information regarding the filing of challan in Majithia’s case. They had even approached the high court in this regard.

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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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