When Prisoners Spy for Extra Chicken!!

CHENNAI: At Puzhal prison in Tamil Nadu state of India, officials are using “well-behaved inmates” as decoys to keep tabs on other prisoners. The bait: extra chicken dishes.

Based on the information provided by these inmates, prison officials have been secretly monitoring the movements of several suspects. “We have placed at least 20 inmates — Prakash, an accused in the Kurangu Kumar murder case, notorious gangster Nagendran and Somu, an accused in the murder of MLA MK Balan — under shadow-watch. We suspect they have been using mobiles and smuggling contraband with the help of some prison officials,” as per R Duraisamy, deputy inspector general of police, prisons. Read more............................Prisoners spy for extra chicken

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Cops go Bananas over Jewel thief but Chicken & Rice help

Here is a thief from Kolkata city in West Bengal state of India who snatched a gold necklace worth US $11,00 from a woman as she shopped for toys & when cornered by police, he swallowed the necklace.

Police then thought of an ingenious way to retrieve the gold necklace swallowed by the thief - by making him gorge on bananas till he emitted it the natural way.

Mohsin alias Jainal has been made to swallow 36 bananas but the police had not been able to recover the precious piece of jewellery. Not willing to give up, they placed orders for more bananas. But when bananas could not do their job, police fed Mohsin rice, chicken and local bread, reported the BBC.

Finally the necklace, which appeared on an X-ray taken on the suspect, was excreted and retrieved.

Mohsin had snatched the gold chain worth Indian Rs.45,000 (US $11,00) from Kiran Bahari, a resident of Lower Rawdon Street in central Kolkata. But he was caught by residents and handed over to the police.

A trader in the vicinity said he had seen Mohsin popping the chain into his mouth.

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Chicken served to Pundit, Airline Fined

"Arvind Sharma", a cargo agent for a computer company in India, claimed that he was served 'Chicken Pakoda' on a Malaysian Airlines flight from Bangalore to Kuala Lumpur in March 2003 when he had asked for vegetarian meals......

Malaysian Airline System Bhd has been ordered by a magistrate's court to pay RM 20,000 ( Indian Rs Two Lakh) in aggravated damages to the Brahmin from India for serving him chicken in the flight.

"Being born in a Brahmin family, having been brought up in the Brahmin way of life and being a vegetarian accords him a social status and is addressed with the honorific 'Pundit' in India," the magistrate said adding that Sharma was entitled to self-respect and dignity.

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Hen turn into a Cock - Naturally

An Indian veterinarian claims to have seen a rare, spontaneous Sex change of a bird.
The Hen laid eggs six months ago - and some hatched - but it later began to grow a rooster's comb, said Partha Sarathi Ghosh, a veterinarian at West Bengal state's Animal Husbandry Department , quoting the bird's owner.

Earlier this week Ghosh and a team of experts visited the village of Kamat -Chengrabanda where the incident occurred.

Ghosh said the bird had undergone a process of natural sex change.

"Sure, it's rare," the veterinarian said, adding that owner Haziruddin Mohammad has called the incident a miracle and refused to hand over the bird to the Animal Husbandry Department.

"Every once in a while you hear a story about a hen that changed into a cock. Such stories are often meet with skepticism, but sex reversals do, in fact, occur, although not very frequently," says a 2000 report published by the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences.

The study said spontaneous sex reversals can result from damage to one ovary.
It said that there are reports of some such birds fathering offspring, but that most never do.

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Live Chicken eating Calf

In India where Cows are considered Holy & are worshipped like God, what shall you say when the calf of a cow eats chicken. Here in Chandpur village, about 240 km (150 miles) northwest of capital Kolkata in West Bengal state of India, a farmer Ajit Ghosh was puzzled when his chickens started disappearing. In all 48 chickens went missing in a month. Later on he was shocked to see that one calf of theirs was eating chickens alive.

The farmer and his calf have become local celebrities in the village & people have flocked to the farm to see for themselves such a calf. The man and his cow have been on Indian TV after the news spread.

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