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Paswan demands probe into Bihar ‘starvation death’

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Ram-Vilas-Paswan-655x360Patna:  Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Monday demanded a judicial probe into the alleged starvation death of a Mahadalit man in Bihar’s Sheikhpura district.

“We have demanded a judicial probe into the death of Mahadalit, Joba Manjhi,” Paswan, union minister of consumer affairs, told the media here.

Earlier, opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislators kicked up a ruckus in the Bihar assembly on Monday demanding a high-level probe into the alleged starvation death of Manjhi.

The state government has, however, denied the allegation that Manjhi died due to starvation. The government maintains that Manjhi died due to illness.

Paswan, Dalit leader and chief of the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP), an ally of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA), alleged that the Grand Alliance government led by Nitish Kumar in Bihar has failed to implement the food security programme to ensure foodgrains to the poorest of the poor in the state.

Taking pot shots at Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s government, Paswan said the food security programme was “launched in a hurry” in the state ahead of last year’s Bihar assembly elections and has “failed in its implementation”.

“Poor people are not getting foodgrains,” he claimed.

Paswan said a central team will visit Bihar soon to examine the status of the food security programme and submit a report.

Last week, former chief minister and Hindustani Awam Morcha president Jitan Ram Manjhi alleged that Joba Manjhi had died due to starvation.

But district authorities of Sheikhpura have said that Manjhi died due to illness.

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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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