Coimbatore: A day after the Madras high court stayed land acquisition for Avinashi Road flyover for two weeks, road safety and social activists said t.
Coimbatore: The forest department officials from Anamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR) on Tuesday arrested two men while furtively trying to sell a pair of a wild elephant’s canine teeth at a private textile shop in Vettaikaranpudur.
T Manian, 42, of Sethumadai, found the skeletal remains and skull of a female elephant inside the reserve forest at Bothamadai beat coming under Boyankadu area in Pollachi forest range three days ago. He took two canine teeth from the skull.
Meanwhile, Mohanraj Mariappan of Odaiyakulam village near Pollachi showed interest in buying the canine teeth from Manian for its ‘medicinal values’.
While Manian was about to hand over the teeth to Mohanraj at a textile shop at Vettaikaranpudur, forest officials caught them red-handed.
Coimbatore: In two separate cases, a 47-year-old wall painter from a village near Karumathampatti and a polytechnic college student from Pollachi were arrested on Tuesday for raping and impregnating two minor girls.
The Thudiyalur all-woman police arrested M Mohanraj, 47, a wall painter from a village near Karumathampatti, for raping a 16-year-old girl. “On October 29, 2020, Mohanraj, who was drunk, had entered the minor girl’s house when she was alone and raped her. He later threatened her of dire consequences if she were to reveal the incident to others. Later, he started to rape the girl often,” a police officer said.
Coimbatore: In a complete disrespect to a dead person, the Selvapuram and Vadavalli police on Tuesday entered into a jurisdictional dispute while leaving the body in Nagarajapuram tank, where it was found around 7am on the day, till 6.30pm.
According to a police source, the body, with its head covered in a polythene bag, was first spotted by Nagarajapuram villagers, who went to attend nature’s call near the waterbody in the morning. “Half of the body (till hip) was on the lake bund, while the remaining part was in the water. Two liquor bottles were also found near the body.”
Coimbatore: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat would visit the district on Wednesday to release a book written by former Meghalaya governor V Shanmuganathan.
He is likely to hold a meeting with the RSS functionaries. According to the organizers of the event, Bhagwat would land at the city airport around noon and participate in the release of the book titled ‘Intha Mannil Vilaintha Magatthana Sinthanai’ at Ayyappa Pooja Sangam at Ram Nagar at 6pm.
Police said Bhagwat was slated to stay in Coimbatore till February 19 and is likely to hold meetings with the RSS functionaries.
Meanwhile, Union minister of state for home affairs G Kishan Reddy and Union minister of state for road transport and highways V K Singh are also scheduled to participate in a bhoomi puja ceremony on Codissia grounds on Wednesday to prepare the venue for Prime minister Narendra Modi’s visit later this month. The two will hold meetings with the BJP functionaries as well as ‘intellectuals’. V K Singh would also