Sabith murder case: One more arrested

October 24, 2013

Kasargod, Oct 24: Pawan Kumar, 28, a resident of Kelugudde, was arrested on Wednesday in connection with the murder of 18-year-old T A Sabith at Nullipady on July 7.

He was nabbed from his house at 8.30 a.m. by Town Police station sub-inspector T Uthamdas.

With this, all seven accused in the daylight murder of the youth were arrested.

Pawan was charged under IPC section 212 (Harbouring accused).

Sabith was moving on a motorbike along with his friend around 11 a.m. on the ill-fated day when he was stabbed by two motor-borne youths.

The provocation for the murder was his “failure' to give way to the bike used by the prime accused. The prime accused, K Akshay (21) and K N Vaishakh (19), both hailing from Kasaragod town, escaped to the hilly hamlet of Konnakad in the car arranged by Pawan, the SI said.

The police had earlier arrested local youths R Bijesh (20) and K Sachin Kumar (21), and P K Dhananjayan alias Kuttan (28), residing at Konnakkad, for harbouring the prime accused.

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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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