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Cycle highway to make way for tourists

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PWD feels that the cycle highway will not only help villagers but would also facilitate tourists, cyclists and environmental enthusiasts to get a chance to see gharials, dolphins and a wide variety of migrant birds.

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Cycle track in Lucknow

It would be an exclusive path for riding its ‘election symbol’. A one of its kind 190-km-long ‘cycle highway’ between Agra and Lion Safari project in Etawah is being planned by the Samajwadi Party, giving free-ways a break.

The Public Works Department (PWD) has chaulked out a plan of the highway that would be dedicated only for cycle. PWD feels that the track will not only help villagers but would also facilitate tourists, cyclists and environmental enthusiasts to get a chance to see gharials, dolphins and a wide variety of migrant birds.

Though the financial estimate of the ambitious project is yet to be made, sources said initial projections indicate it to be in the range of over Rs 100 crore.

The average cost of a one-km-long cycle track is around Rs 40 lakh. PWD has constructed 103km network of track in at least five places in Lucknow — Kalidas Marg, Vikramaditya Marg, Lohia Path, Kursi Road and near La Martiniere college.

The department is also engaged in construction of similar tracks in cities like Noida, Varanasi, Kanpur and Allahabad. The tracks, as a matter of fact, have been turning out to be the cause of embarrassment for the PWD as they largely remain unused by cyclists.

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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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