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Yet another taxi strike cripples Kolkata

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Kolkata: Commuters in this eastern metropolis were greatly inconvenienced Wednesday due to a 24-hour taxi strike called for a fare hike and to protest “police excesses”.

This is the tenth strike by local cabs since August 2014.

Commuters were stranded and harried as taxis stayed off the roads again due to the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)-sponsored strike.

The Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) and Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC) also supported the pull-out.

Across the city, long queues were seen at auto-rickshaw and cycle-rickshaw stands while buses plied at full capacity.

Residents in districts of Howrah, Hooghly, and South and North 24 Parganas were also affected.

The Bengal Taxi Association (BTA), which is not participating in the current agitation, provided cab services in key transit points like the airport and railway stations.

According to Bimal Guha of BTA, a helpline has been set up where passengers can get cab pick-ups from home.

Taxi drivers have pulled out their vehicles off the city roads on nine earlier occasions by calling wildcat strikes or protest walks as part of their stir against alleged police excesses.

At the centre of the dispute is the government decision to increase the fine for passenger refusal from Rs.100 to Rs.3,000 to combat repeated complaints of refusals.

The government in August arrested 22 drivers for vandalism as they damaged taxis which did not heed their call for strike and continued plying. They were released on bail after spending four days in jail.

Around 37,000 taxis ply in the city.

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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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