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‘No animal sacrifice during Kullu Dussehra’

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Kullu (Himachal Pradesh):  Animal sacrifice for religious ceremonies has stopped in Kullu district – famous for the centuries old Dussehra festivities – since the high court ban last year, an official said on Thursday.

“There has not been a single instance of animal sacrifice in Kullu district since the high court banned animal sacrifice in September 2014,” Deputy Commissioner Rakesh Kanwar said in a statement.

The famous, centuries old Kullu Dussehra festival earlier used to see animal sacrifice.

He said the administration has taken strong steps to ensure that no such instance happens and the people associated with the Dev Samaj, which comprises representatives of the deities, have also followed the court orders.

According to tradition, the sacrifice of a buffalo, a male lamb, a fish, a crab and a chicken is an important ritual on the concluding day of Kullu Dussehra, which begins in Kullu town after it ends in the rest of the country.

This year the festival will commence on October 23 and will see congregation of over 200 gods and goddesses of the Kullu Valley.

Kanwar told that even during last year’s Kullu Dussehra that fell immediately after the ban was imposed, the local administration managed to convince the Dev Samaj to forgo the practice to appease the gods.

He said that for the first time in over 350 years it happened that no animal sacrifice was carried out last year. The symbolic sacrifice ritual was in fact performed by breaking a coconut.

Invoking parens patriae, a doctrine that grants the state authority to protect those who are legally unable to act on their own, a division bench consisting of Justice Rajiv Sharma and Justice Sureshwar Thakur had observed: “The practice of animal and bird sacrifice is abhorrent and dastardly.”

The bench had banned the animals sacrifice in temples, saying they cannot be permitted to be killed in a barbaric manner to “appease” the gods.

The Kullu Valley is also popularly known as the ‘Dev bhoomi’ – the land of gods. Every village has several resident gods and goddesses – who are invoked as living deities.

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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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