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Six of eight trekkers missing in Himachal rescued

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shimlaShimla:Six of the eight trekkers who went missing in the Manali area of Kullu district in Himachal Pradesh were rescued on Sunday evening while two others were spotted to be safe, officials said.

Seven students of Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology in Punjab’s Sangrur along with their trekking instructor lost their way due to inclement weather while trekking to the Chanderkhani peak.

“The six have been airlifted by a chopper. They were spotted during an aerial recce in the morning itself but the chopper had to return due to bad weather,” area Subdivisional Magistrate Jyoti Rana told IANS.

Rana said the rescued students were brought to Rungsu near Naggar ahead of Manali and given first aid, after which they were taken to Kullu. “They are all fine,” she added.

She said two students — Hitender Sharma and Anil Kumar — were spotted near a cave-like structure where all eight had earlier taken shelter. Both were safe, she said.

“We could not airlift them today (Sunday) as the weather turned bad again. But we have dropped food packets for them and will airlift them in the first aerial sortie in the area,” the official said.

Three teams of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police were pressed for search and rescue after teams from a local mountaineering institute and the police failed to find them due to inclement weather.

A helicopter was pressed into service on Saturday, but it too failed to make much headway due to the bad weather.

 

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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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