Protesters suspect 'influential hands' behind Panjimogaru double murder

January 20, 2012

Mangalore, January 20: “The unsolved Panjimogaru double murder case creates an impression that some influential people of the region might have involved in this barbarous crime” said Muneer Katipalla, State unit vice-president of Democratic Youth Federation of India.

He was addressing a protest rally organized by the local unit of DYFI on Friday in front of the office of District-in-charge minister Krishna J Palemar located at Mangalore City Corporation building here, in order to exert pressure on the government to hand over the case to the Central Bureau of Investigation.

Dozens of residents of Panjimogaru, where a 35-year-old housewife Razia and her daughter 8-year-old daughter Fatima Zuha were murdered in broad day light on June 28, 2011, took part in the protest displaying black flags against Mr Palemar.

Mr Katipalla said that neither the elected representatives nor the police bothered about the issue. “Not a single elected representative so far visited the family members of the victims to assure them that the culprits will be arrested”, he said.

He also threated to hold protest in front of Chief Minister's office if the police and elected representatives continued to be negligent towards this case.

Local leaders of DYFI Imthiaz B K, Dayanand Shetty, and Anil D'Souza were present among others.

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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.

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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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