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Gurgaon sees traffic jams on ‘Car Free Day’

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Gurgaon: Gurgaon’s police chief Navdeep Singh Virk on Tuesday rode a bicycle to mark “Car Free Day” (CFD), but the normally busy roads here witnessed the usual traffic jams.

The CFD was an initiative of the Gurgaon administration, organised by traffic police and municipal corporation with support from NASSCOM, Embarq India, Raahgiri Foundation and Rapid Metro.

The mission was to free Gurgaon’s roads from perpetual congestion, urge people to use alternate modes of transport and to reduce pollution.

With one lakh new cars being registered every year in Gurgaon, the city caters to 12 lakh cars for a population of 35 lakh, including its floating work force.

While the whole of Gurgaon celebrated CFD, four major IT corridors were identified to make the campaign more concentrated — DLF Cyber City, Cyber Park area, Golf Course Road and Electronic City.

“In the morning there were fewer cars but the situation became the usual self later. Several roads witnessed traffic jams,” a senior police officer told IANS.

The organisers of the event said it was a good start and it will be repeated every Tuesday.

Police sourced 20 cranes to tow away cars parked on roads. Rapid Metro increased its frequency.

Feeder buses were also provided from major metro stations like Huda City Centre and Sikanderpur and from the Kapashera border to the major IT hubs. But none of this could ease Gurgaon’s notorious traffic woes.

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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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