ADVANI ON PRIVATE BUSINESS;

Madikeri June 23, 2009

BJP leader and opposition leader in the central Cabinet, L.K.Advani has arrived in Kodagu today.

Advani is on private visit, according to police.

He landed at Bangalore by 12.20 and reached Kodagu in the evening. He has come with his daughter and son in law and is staying at a private resort at Siddapur. High police security is providing to him and around the area where he is staying.

POACHING ENDS IN POACHERS DEATH;

A team indulging in illegal poaching inside the forest shot their accomplice by mistake and returned with his bleeding body, instead of an animal prey.

The incident occurred on 21st at Badaga village near Bhagamandala.. The residents of Badaga, Narayana, Ramaiah, Appaiah and Thammaiah set out for poaching in the afternoon on 21st. They took position in different places inside a thick jungle and kept watch for the wild life. They sat on trees with guns in hand. Nothing appeared till night fall. Narayan, 40, got down from the tree without signaling his friends and started walking within the bushes. Ramaiah, positioned on a tree at a distance noticed the movement in the bushes and opened fire. He was shocked to hear Narayana wailing in pain. The trio rushed to the spot and noticed that Narayan was badly wounded and began to bleed. They carried him home by walking five kilometers inside the forest. It was twelve midnight by the time they reached his house.

The family members called for a jeep to shift him to a hospital. But Narayan breathed his last before shifting.

Police yesterday seized four guns used for poaching and initiated action against the trio.

HE CLIMBED THE TREE, YET DEATH WOULD NOT SPARE HIM

A person climbed a tree to save himself from a tusker. Alas he falls down from the top and died!

The incident occurred at Avaregundha forest near Siddapur on 21st night. A laborer Soligara Arasa, 58 was walking home through the forest at night. He was holding a torch made of cloth fixed to a stick. Mid way, he heard a tusker trumpeting. As the pachyderm approached him, irritated by the torch light Arasa climbed on a tree. The tusket again trumpeted. A shivering Arasu could not hold on to the tree, but fell on the ground and died.

His body was lifted in the morning.

Range Forest Officer Chinnappa rushed to the spot and assured to release compensation to the family.