Bangalore: Jilted lover stabs woman to death in broad daylight

March 21, 2014

Bangaore, Mar 21: A 25-year-old woman was brutally murdered by a 43-year-old man in full public view on the busy Race Course Road Thursday afternoon for reportedly refusing to marry him.

The victim, a computer operator at the Bangalore Turf Club (BTC), has been identified as Sunitha, a resident of Tavarekere on Magadi road. The accused has been identified as Dhanaraj, a driver with a private firm and resident of Kempegowda Nagar on Magadi Road. The High Grounds police, who registered a case of murder, said the victim was stabbed brutally over 17 times by her Dhanaraj. She died on the way to hospital.

Sunitha and Dhanaraj had been in love and knew each other for the past six years. Dhanaraj was aware that Sunitha was married nine years ago and had a eight-year-old specially-abled child from the marriage that ended in a divorce, police said.

The incident on Thursday took place around 2 pm when Sunitha came out of gate number three at the Turf Club. Dhanaraj was allegedly waiting with a knife and stabbed her 17 times. A police constable who was at the junction near the scene managed to nab the attacker. A mob that gathered at the scene joined hands with the constable and ended up thrashing the accused before handing him over to the police.

The Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central) BR Ravikanthe Gowda said Sunitha had been avoiding Dhanaraj over the past three months. Dhanaraj claimed to have been enraged over being ignored, the police said. The police said Dhanaraj had confessed that he had been proposing marriage to Sunitha when she began avoiding him.

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Elusive bamboo shrimp resurfaces in Mangaluru estuary after 70 years

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Mangaluru, Dec 7: A rare bamboo shrimp has been rediscovered on mainland India more than 70 years after it was last reported, confirming for the first time the presence of Atyopsis spinipes in the country. The find was made by researchers from the Centre for Climate Change Studies at Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, during surveys in Karnataka and Odisha.

The team — shrimp expert Dr S Prakash, PhD scholar K Kunjulakshmi, and Mangaluru-based researcher Maclean Antony Santos — combined field surveys, ecological assessments and DNA analysis to identify the elusive species. Their findings, published in Zootaxa, resolve decades of taxonomic confusion stemming from a 1951 report that misidentified the species as Atyopsis moluccensis without strong evidence.

The shrimp has now been confirmed at two locations: the Mulki–Pavanje estuary near Mangaluru and the Kuakhai River in Bhubaneswar. Historical specimens from the Andaman Islands, previously labelled as A. moluccensis, were also found to be misidentified and actually belong to A. spinipes.

The rediscovery began after an aquarium hobbyist in Odisha spotted a shrimp in 2022, prompting systematic surveys across Udupi, Karwar and Mangaluru. Four female specimens were collected in Mulki and one in Odisha, all genetically matching.

Researchers warn the species may exist in very small, vulnerable populations as freshwater habitats face increasing pressure from pollution, sand mining and infrastructure development. All verified specimens have been deposited with the Zoological Survey of India for future reference.

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