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Power outages add to summer woes in Uttar Pradesh

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Lucknow: Unscheduled power cuts across Uttar Pradesh have added to the summer woes of people even as the maximum temperature crosses 40 degrees celsius and the harsh sun shows no sign of relenting.

Officials admit that the power demand has peaked to 13,000 MW while the availability is 12,000 MW. The Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Private Limited (UPPCL) has purchased 100 MW of electricity from other sources but that is not enough to tide over the shoratges of 1,000 MW.

Power production has come to a grinding halt in a 100-MW unit of Parischa plant. Also there is no power generation in the 500-MW Anpara D.

Roastering-free cities like Lucknow and Agra have also reported long outages in the past 48-hours. With day temperatures steadily climbing, officials say that the power demand has gone up by 25 per cent.

The power demand in the state last week was 10,500 MW, which has now gone up to 13,000 MW. The 665 MW Harduaganj plant is generating only 250 MW after a recent boiler explosion. The Panki power plant in Kanpur is also not working to its optimum due to a technical fault.

The state gets 5,500 MW from the Centre and generates 6,500 MW from various sources.

Opposition parties have criticised the state government for the poor power supply. BJP’s state spokesman Vijay Bahadur Pathak said the Akhilesh Yadav government has been making loud claims of improvement in the power scenario though the ground relalities are very different.

“It is strange, the summer has just started and the situation is so bad. Only God knows what will happen when the heat wave escalates,” he told IANS.

Senior BSP leader Swamy Prasad Maurya called the Samajwadi Party (SP) government as an “utter failure on all fronts, including the power sector.”

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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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