Mangaluru: Cops refute allegation of abandoning injured family on road

February 8, 2017

Mangaluru, Feb 8: The Mangaluru city police have refuted the allegations of abandoning an injured family on road, and accused the protesters who blocked the highway at Kuloor, of misleading the people.

On Tuesday, activists of Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) blocked the Udupi-Mangaluru highway for an hour accusing the police of abandoning an injured family on road.

According to sources, two families at Kasba Bengre village had been engaged in a land dispute for a long time. On Tuesday, things turned ugly as one family attacked another with lethal weapons at Kasba Bengre. Ahmed, his wife and their two children were badly injured in the clash.

Sources from Panambur police station said that their sleuths rushed to the spot and took the injured family members in their vehicle to provide treatment at a nearby private hospital but dropped them half way through on their request.

However, the protesters alleged that instead of taking the family to a hospital for treatment, police deliberately abandoned them on the road near Kulur.

D S Rajendra, Assistant Commissioner of Police, refuted the allegation sating that victims on the way to AJ Hospital stopped the vehicle near Kulur and told the police that they would go to Wenlock District Hospital for treatment. They also asked police to go back stating that they would manage on their own.

“On the way to Wenlock Hospital, the victims received calls from DYFI activists who forced them to comeback. After the inurred come back to same spot where police had left them, the activists started a protest,” he said adding a probe will be conducted into the issue to know the truth.

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As per police statement, in case the victims had preferred to go to Wenlock Hospital, why did the police did not take them to this hospital and abandoned the injured persons on road. This is inhuman. Case should be investigated.

Anything can happen in politics

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Elusive bamboo shrimp resurfaces in Mangaluru estuary after 70 years

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December 7,2025

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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