Three persons were booked by Amreli police for trying to encroach upon a government land worth millions by allegedly submitting fraud documents. According to police, the accused submitted documents with forged signatures of famous dignitaries such as Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, India’s first home minister, Dr Rajendra Prasad, India’s first president and Dr B R Ambedkar, India’s first law minister, and had also submitted fake orders from the Gujarat High Court. The main accused in the case is petitioner Vali Metar, a resident of Vapi, and the two other accused are Vali’s power of attorney - Yusuf Motiwala and Vinod Rai Bhad, both natives of Amreli. According to police, the three have been claiming five plots in Amreli as that of Vali’s since 2008 and had also submitted land documents at the district collector’s office. The documents were designed so craftily so as to give them an ‘antique’ look by three conspirators, all senior citizens, two of them who have been detained.
FIR against MP hospital that tied patient to bed
The authorities in Madhya Pradesh's Shajapur district on Monday sealed a private hospital and lodged an FIR against its administration in connection with an incident where an elderly patient was allegedly tied to the hospital's bed over non-payment of medical bills. A controversy erupted after a photo of the old man, lying down with his hands and legs tied to the bed, went viral in social media.
After Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan took cognisance of media reports, the newly appointed collector of Shajapur district Dinesh Jain ordered a probe into the incident. After the ADM submitted the report to the collector, which stated that it had found irregularities on the part of the private hospital, it has been sealed and an FIR has been lodged with the police.
Roaming tiger gets life term
It’s wandering days are over. The nomad tiger from Maharashtra, which made headlines in 2018 for the longest dispersal in the quickest time in the country, may have to spend the rest of its life behind bars for three human kills. It was tranquillised in Kanha National Park and shifted to Van Vihar in Bhopal, where it’s likely to be kept in solitary confinement, say sources. Officers say the tiger was given many chances to survive in the wild but it kept straying into human habitation. The authorities declared it “dangerous” to human life in compliance with the 2019 NTCA guidelines and decided to keep it in an enclosure. The five-year-old, 180-kg male had wandered 510 km, from Chandrapur in Maharashtra to Palaspani in MP’s Betul - killing three humans on the way - in search of new territory between August and December 2018.
After python lays eggs, construction stopped
The construction work of a solar plant in Kerala’s Kasaragod was halted for 10 days after the forest department found 36 unhatched Indian Rock Python eggs at the site. The construction of the solar plant is estimated to cost £20 million. The construction of the solar power plant is being undertaken by Tata Power Solar. The project is estimated to produce 50MW electricity and the construction began in February this year. In late May, a group of workers who were manning the bulldozer, meant for levelling the soil, noticed a python which was nesting several eggs beneath it. The workers immediately contacted the forest department and asked them to remove the python from the construction site. "Their request was to remove the python and the eggs. I sent some officials to the site and they repeated their demand. Then I went to the spot and asked them to temporarily stop the work as we had to wait for the eggs to hatch,” Anil Kumar, Kasaragod range forest officer said.
Online course on mountaineering draws many
The Nehru Institute of Mountaineering (NIM) in Uttarkashi, one of India’s premier mountaineering institutes, will start offering digital classes next month. The Himalayan Mountaineering Institute - India’s oldest mountaineering institution set up in 1954 in Darjeeling - also has similar plans. The online courses include theoretical lessons on mountaineering. They consist of map reading, dietary and survival tips, other dos and don’ts, first aid training, history and ethics of mountaineering, types of peaks, risk factors and lessons on team spirit. At NIM, 600 students in multiple batches will start their online training in July. The batches include students whose classes were disrupted in March due to Covid-19 lockdown and those who were supposed to join sessions in July.
5 Hizbul ultras killed in J&K encounter
Five Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists, including a top commander of the outfit, were killed in a counter-terrorism operation by a joint team of security forces in south Kashmir’s Shopian district, IGP Kashmir Zone Vijay Kumar said, citing credible intelligence inputs. While police are yet to release an official statement confirming the identities and affiliation of the slain terrorists, official sources identified three of them as - top Hizbul commander Farooq Ahmad Nalli from Kulgam, who had been active since 2015; Saklain Ahmad Wager from Reben; and Safait Amin Nayak from Babapora. The fourth was a local terrorist while the fifth was probably from Pakistan.
