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Prabhu neglected northeastern states:Tripura government

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Railway-Budget-2016-570x350Agartala:Tripura’s Left Front government Thursday night criticised Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu for neglecting the northeastern states in the 2016-17 rail budget.

“The railway budget presented in the parliament by Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu has neglected the northeast by not providing adequate funds for the new constructions and on going constructions of railway infrastructure in the region,” Transport Minister Manik Dey told reporters.

“Six years after the finalisation of a new India-Bangladesh railway project — Agartala (India)-Akhaura (Bangladesh), the railway minister has allocated only Rs.150 crore while the project required Rs 1,000 crore,” he said.

The Agartala-Akhaura railway project was finalised in January 2010 when Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina met then Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during her visit to New Delhi.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi discussed the railway project with Hasina during his visit to Dhaka in June last year.

“The BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) led central government prepared the railway budget to appease the corporate sector,” Dey said adding that no new trains were introduced and no major railway project announced in the budget for the northeastern region comprising eights states.

He said that Tripura’s three MPs – Jitendra Chowdhury, Sankar Prasad Datta (both Lok Sabha) and Jharna Das Baidya (Rajya Sabha) – and the state government had urged the prime minister and railway minister on a number of times to set up a railway division and a railway recruitment board in Tripura, but the budget has neglected all these.

“Though there are proposal to increase allocation of meagre funds for some of the railway projects in the northeastern states, but there is no specific reference about many on going projects in the region,” Dey added.

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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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