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May 11, 2021 14:56 IST
Buildings, and a road leading to the construction site were illegally set up; Forest Department has cut off access to the road and has booked a case
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The Forest Department is planting trees along the illegal road to prevent future use | Photo Credit:
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Buildings, and a road leading to the construction site were illegally set up; Forest Department has cut off access to the road and has booked a case
The ecologically-sensitive area of Naduvattam, adjoining the Mukurthi National Park is at risk, due to the construction of buildings as well as an illegal road cutting through forest land.
Man sentenced to life for murder
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AAA A 51-year-old man was sentenced to life on Friday for the murder of a woman near Pykara in Udhagamandalam in June 2017.
Anathakumar was into a relationship with the woman.
Suspecting she was unfaithful to him, he set her on fire after pouring kerosene on her during a quarrel. The woman died of severe burns. The man was arrested and charged with murder.
On Friday, Judge K. Arunachalam, who heard the case in the fast track Mahila Court in Udhagamandalam, sentenced Ananthakumar to life imprisonment and imposed a fine ₹1,000 on him.
The death of an elephant in the Nilgiris spotlights the tussle over a conservation project
The Sigur Elephant Corridor, connecting the Western and Eastern Ghats, is facing resistance because it will displace over 12,000 people.
The recent conflict between the owners of a homestay and a male elephant in the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve in the Nilgiris in Tamil Nadu, that led to the death of the tusker, has again brought into focus the tussle over land that is being earmarked for elephant movement in the area. The dispute, which has gone through years of litigation in the courts, got intense after the area to be acquired for the corridor was expanded, displacing those whose lives and livelihoods depended on the lands that were being earmarked for the animals.
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