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Rahul meets Dalit family in Una, announces Rs 5 lakh aid

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Rahul GandhiUna (Saurashtra) : Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday visited the home of a Dalit man whose four sons were brutally flogged on July 11 for skinning a dead cow and announced assistance of Rs 5 lakh for the family.

Gandhi, who flew into Gujarat in the morning, drove straight to the house of Babubhai Sarvaiya in Samadhiyala village of Una and spent 40 minutes with the family.

Gandhi was accompanied by the party’s Gujarat affairs in-charge Gurudas Kamat, state Congress president Bharatsinh Solanki and other party leaders here as well as Congress leader and Dalit leader Kumari Selja.

Scores of people thronged Samadhiyala village in Una taluka (tehsil) of Gir-Somnath district as the Congress leader spent time in the village.

Even as he freely interacted with them, Gandhi asked Jitu Sarvaiya, Babubhai’s nephew, if this was the first time or they had been suffering caste discrimination for long.
“There was nothing new in this, this is quite normal,” Sarvaiya said.

Rahul’s question in Hindi was, “Yahan chhua-chhut kya pehle se hain ya abhi hain.”

Jitu, 20, is an engineering student and the only educated member of the family. He said that since there were no work avenues they were engaged in the business of skinning skin of dead animals for the tanneries.

Jitu said: , “We don’t want money, but we wish support for sustenance and livelihood. We clear the dirt of the society and this is what we are given in return by the society.”

Gandhi sat with the family and held Babubhai Sarvaiya’s hand as they all became emotional. The Congress vice president shared tea with the Dalit family, something they are not used to by high-caste people.

Gandhi is also reported to have watched the video clip of the assault on the youth at the village. The clip has gone viral and the incident been widely condemned.

Gandhi later left for Rajkot city, the nerve centre of the Saurashtra region, where he was to call on Dalit youngsters undergoing treatment after their suicide attempts in the government Civil Hospital there in protest against the July 11 incident by a cow vigilante group.

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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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