IT CAN HAPPEN ONLY IN INDIA: THREE-YEAR-OLD CHILD CHARGED FOR RIOTING IN BIHAR!!

Believe it or not. A three-year-old boy was allegedly involved in various heinous crimes, including rioting and attempt to murder, in Bihar's Katihar district, according to police in Katihar.
Raj Kumar Jha alias Raju, of Nawabganj village under Manihari police station, has been booked under Sections
307 (Attempt to Murder), 323 (Voluntarily causing hurt), 349 (Use of force) and 34 (Acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) of IPC and Arms Act after a clash between two communities on January 30.
Two groups had clashed over the route of a religious procession leading to intervention by the police, which fired in the air to disperse the warring factions. Police claimed they too were fired upon by the crowd.
Raju's father Raj Narayan, who runs a PCO, said he had tried to get the case against the infant revoked but failed.
Officer in-charge of Manihari police station S N Singh said Raju's name has been included among the accused
apparently by mistake.
"How can a toddler (Raju was aged around two years at the time of the incident) engage in rioting?" he himself wondered and said probably it was due to the similarity in the names of the father and the son which led to the error.
When contacted, Superintendent of Police Anil Kishore Yadav said he had instructed a Deputy Superintendent
of Police to look into the matter and submit a report. "Appropriate action will be taken once the report is received."
A few months ago, a similar flutter had been caused when a six-year-old was accused of outraging the modesty of a woman and had approach a Patna court for bail. The case against him was discharged by the court..

Hen cocks a snook at nature, turns into a cock!!

It may sound like a cock and bull story, but a hen has changed into a cock by a freak of nature in West Bengal's Coochbehar district.

Partha Sarathi Ghose of the state's animal husbandry department on Wednesday said that the hen changed its gender without artificial intervention at Kamat-Chengrabanda village in Mekhligunj sub-division.

Officials of the department rushed to the village with the local block development officer after a paper published the news on Tuesday.

Claiming that there were scientific reasons behind the change, Ghose described it as a "rarest of rare incidents" and the first of its kind in West Bengal and second in India after Bihar.

A similar incident was reported a few decades ago in Bihar and published in an American journal, he said.

The owner of the hen-turned-cock, Haziruddin Mohammad, and other villagers were cock-a-hoop at the change after reading into it signs of a 'divine miracle'.

Haziruddin claimed the hen had laid eggs only six months ago, a few of which had hatched. Slowly, however, anatomical changes were noticed on the bird that started to grow a cock's comb, he said.

Animal husbandry officials requested him to hand over the rare bird to them but he refused as it has been drawing a steady stream of visitors to his house, many of whom are offering coins to the bird.

Animal husbandry official are keeping a round-the-clock vigil on the bird and are busy surfing the Internet to trace the American journal which reported the case from Bihar as the bird could be a matter of research.