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Bihar farmers force change of Modi’s function venue

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Madhubani: Prime Minister Narendra Modi during an election rally in Madhubani on Sunday. PTI Photo (PTI11_1_2015_000177A)

Patna: Around three dozen farmers who refused to reap their standing wheat crops before ripening to make space available for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s function in Vaishali district of Bihar on March 12 forced authorities to change the venue, officials said on Friday.

“Faced with protest by dozens of farmers, who have refused to reap their standing crops, the function venue has been shifted,” a district official said.

Bharatiya Janata Party’s Bihar unit president Mangal Pandey confirmed to the media here that the venue has been changed.

Farmers of Sultanpur near Hajipur, the district headquarters of Vaishali and about 30 km from Patna, had protested against the attempts by local authorities to hustle them into cutting their unripened crops for Modi’s function.

“These farmers protested that they had not yet been paid compensation for their crops harvested in 2014 and 2015 to make space available for Modi’s election campaign rally. They refused to harvest their crops this time and threatened to protest if forced to do so,” officials said.

According to officials, the farmers made it clear that they would not go for early harvest since it would fetch low prices in the market. “Farmers also rejected the offer of adequate compensation.”

The land on which Modi’s function was proposed to be held belongs to nearly 40 farmers.

A team of local officials, during their visit to the area three days ago, said the farmers should cooperate for the prime minister’s function. But the farmers said they would harvest only the fully ripened crops by March-end.

Modi will visit Bihar on March 12 also to attend the closing ceremony of the Patna High Court centenary function.

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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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