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Over last four years the sharp shrinkage of the world’s largest rookery of Olive Ridleys sea turtles, has made the wildlife lovers and environmentalists a cloud of anxiousness and uncertainty over the prospects of nesting of these innocent species this time.

Significantly these endangered marine species, accorded threatened status like tiger as per schedule-I of Indian Wildlife(Protection)Act,1972 (amended 1991)  and  the sea turtles are protected under the ‘migratory species convention’ and CITES(convention of International Trade on Wildlife Flora and Fauna), had moved quickly to their annual sojourn in order to lay eggs on the sandy beach at Gahirmatha, said official sources .

However, the peaceful environment of the sandy beach considered to be the most favourite and congenial place for “Arribada”(a Spanish term for  mass nesting phenomenon), which was undergoing rapid topographical changes over last  some  years. And the beach has become a matter of worry for the conservationists and as well as the environmentalists raising a fear that the turtles may get distracted by the broken nesting  sites, said Kishore Swain ,a wildlife lover and environmentalist.

Official sources said that once the 15 km stretched beach, one of the largest nesting ground in the world on the east coast of Bay of Bengal , has been reduced to more than half of its earlier shape following massive sea erosion.

According to the Rajnagar Mangrove Forest division official sources, the rookery which is situated at Gahirmatha beach mostly parts of Nasi-I, Nasi-II, Ekakulanasi and Babubali isles plays  a favourite nesting place to marine species.

The nesting grounds mainly at Nasi-I and Nasi-II have shrunk most of its parts. Nasi –I is now reduced to 2.1 km long. But the fact of worry is that it is divided into at least three short parts, over the last four years, said  Swain.

Apart from the sea erosion, the violent tidal waves caused breaches, changing the geographical character of the scenic island and affecting the space of turtle habitat. On the other hand, the Nasi –I island , which is stretched 3km , is less affected  by the sea erosion . More  than the parts of the Nasi –II has got stretched  out almost touching Babubali island, said forest official sources.

In a bizarre incident , a septuagenarian bigamist under Derabish Police limit of Kendrapara district ,in a fit of rage ,allegedly attacked his son and his daughter-in-law with a chopper ,on Friday, resulting the death of his daughter-in-law after a family feud erupted between the bigamist father and son. According to Mrutyunjaya Swain,.the IIC of Derabish Police Station, a bigamist , Panu Behera , 77 years , of Fakirabad village under Chatara chakoda Gram Panchayat in Derabish police station ,on Friday , allegedly attacked his elder son , chakradhar Behera, and his daughter-in-law, Rina Behera, the spouse of Chakradhar, with a chopper by injuring them critically after a feud erupted between Chakradhar and his septuagenarian father ,Panu Behera for a silly matter.Later , the duo injured husband and wife were rushed to the local Chhata PHC ,on Friday , with the help of villagers. But as their health conditions were deteriorated ,the doctor referred the injureds to SCB medical college and hospital at Cuttack ,where Rina Behera, the spouse of Chakradhar succumbed to her cut injuries and chakradhar is struggling with his life in the hospital bed at SCB. The deceased Rina Behera was survived with her husband and three children ,including two girls and a son, who were between the age group of 2-8 years ,added the IIC of Derabish. The deceased Rina Behera’s father Dhoya Patra on Friday night lodged an FIR against his deceased’s daughter father-in-law at Derabish police station. Police ,on Sunday , seized the chopper and arrested the septuagenarian bigamist from his house . Later, the arrested septuagenarian produced before the SDJM court of Kendrapada under Section 302 and 307 of IPC where he remanded into jail custody after his bail petition was rejected in the court,stated Swain , the IIC of Derabish Police Station When contacted the arrested septuagenarian confessed to the crime and informed that in a fit of rage he has committed such crime as he failed to bear the filthy language of his elder son and daughter-in-law after feud erupted over the shifting of an electric meter reading box . According to the arrested Panu Behera, He has two sons .After the demise of his first wife, he tied knot with Bimbala Behera. . Both of his sons were living separately . He and his second wife were living with his younger son ,Narayan Behera .most of the time , his elder son Chakradhar and his spouse allegedly made feud with him . On Friday , his elder son ,Chakradhar, allegedly tried to shift the electric current meter reading box to his house ,which was fixed .at the house of his younger son Narayan. He allegedly protested the move of his elder son as his younger son was not present in the house . Being irate over the fact , his elder son started altercation with him by using filthy language . “Bering failed to bear the nasty words used by my elder son to me , I ,in a fit of rage, allegedly attacked my elder son with a chopper. But he managed to escape from the house . Later, my daughter-in-law allegedly misbehaved me and abused me . Failed to bear the filthy words of Rina , I lost my anger and started attacking her with a chopper . Both husband and wife sustained multiple injuires and fled from the house . Later, on Friday I went with the chopper to Police station and informed the matter before the IIC of Derabish”,added Panu Behera, the arrested oldman.

In the day today society ,most of the time it has been seen  that a woman has become a subject of torture, both mentally, physically and psychologically , on the hands of  her spouse and  in-laws ,but it is rare that a hubby has fallen prey in the hand of his spouse and to put an end to the trouble he goes for police aid  . Such a case has recently come to the fore in the coastal Kendrapada District where a hubby being tortured mentally and physically allegedly lodged an FIR against his spouse in the police station  and police later acting on the FIR arrested the divorced woman and court sent her to jail custody .

The matter has come to the fore on Saturday where a minority community person, Sheikh Amiruddin ,a resident of Jaipura, allegedly lodged an FIR against his divorced spouse, Ansara Begum, at Kendrapada Town police station alleging that he was subjected to torture by his spouse ,despite the fact that he has given talaq to her . Amiruddin also urged in the petition to look into his matter and to save him from the torture made by his divorced wife, informed Ramesh Sethy , the IIC of Kendrapada Town Police Station.

According to Sethy ,as per the police investigation it has found that Amiruddin tied knot with Ansara Begum some years back and they later became the parents of two children . But his spouse allegedly used to create disturbance in the family most of the time  without any reason and also assaulted physically to him . As Anasari Begum allegedly used to start  quarrel with  her  husband and  tortured her physically .Amirrudin in past tried his best to change his  spouse’s nature by requesting umpteen times  to leave up the quarrel habit, but when his spouse failed to change her nature ,being deprived to get any ultimatum , he allegedly filed petition in the court to give   talaq to Ansari .And later both the married couple gave talaq to each other and stayed separately .

But since last  some days , Anasari umpteen times started visiting  to his house and quarreled with him by assaulting him.Being failed to bear the torture from his spouse despite the fact that he has given talaq , he lodged an FIR in the police station on Saturday, informed Amiruddin before the police  

Later , acting on the FIR  of the victim husband ,police conducted inquiry and arrested Ansari Begum, the divorced wife of Amiruddin The woman on Saturday produced before the SDJM court of Kendrapada under Section 448,293,323 and 506 0f IPC ,where the court rejected the bail petition of the arrested woman and remanded her to jail custody, added the IIC of Kendrapada town police station .

By Akhand in Bhubaneswar, Orissa

Ashok Sahu senior BJP Leader has strongly condemned the arrest of six persons at Muniguda in connection with alleged incidents of 2008. He said BJP was rightly suspecting the hidden agenda of the visiting EU delegates who had came to Odisha to influence the police administration and the judiciary in dealings with cases registered in 2008. The EU delegates met the DGP on 4^th February in sequel to which the police has become high handed and vindictive to appease the visiting foreign dignitaries and immediately after their departure arrested one at K.Nuagaon in Kandhamal district and 6 persons at Muniguda in Rayagada district. The State Police has failed in dealing with the Maoist menace and on the other hand, has been arresting innocent people in connection with made-up cases. Such conduct of police would further erode the public confidence in the system which has failed to deliver justice to the people, Sri Sahu alleged. Sri Sahu now at Phulbani was appreciating the lawyers of the District Court who unitedly foiled the efforts of the EU delegate to meet the judges at Phulbani.

Orissa, India

The Rajnagar police on Saturday arrested one Niranjan Pradhan ,the Village Education Committee (VEC)member of  Siddha Marichani Nodal Primary school of Sanamarichapalli village under Rajnagar block in Kendrapada district, on  the alleged charge of his involvement in preventing two Dalit cooks to prepare mid day meal for the school student on last  19^th January by forcefully  confined the two Dalit women in the kitchen room along with the cooked stuff, said Maheswar Sethy , the IIC of Rajanagar Police station.

The arrested person was booked under Section 442,294,506 IPC ;3 SC & ST Prevention Act after one of the Dalit victim women ,Ketaki Sethy, lodged an FIR at Rajanagar Police Station on last 22^nd January against Niranjan Pradhan,said IIC of Rajnagar PS..

The arrested person was on Saturday produced before the JMFC court of Pattamundai where he remanded into jail custody after his bail petition was rejected.

On the otherhand, the upper caste  students of Siddha Marichani Nodal Primary school of Sanamarichapalli village,on Saturday , skipped from the school as once again a Dalit  prepared meal on Friday  for the student .

According to locals , the upper caste guardians are hell bent not to send their wards to the school till the local administration would not take steps to prevent the Dalits from  preparing midday meal in the school.

It may be noted here that since last 19^th January, the Mid Day meal was stopped after tension prevailed in the area between upper caste and Dalits  following the VEC member , Niranjan Pradhan, allegedly restricted two dalit women Ketaki Sethy and Sebati Sethy ,who were entrusted to cook Mid-Day Meal in Maa Siddhamarichani Nodal Primiary school, not to prepare mid day meal and threatened them to quit their jobs. When the two Dalit women denied to quit their jobs , they were allegedly forced to remain inside the kitchen room with the cooked stuff as the VEC members of the school , confined them by locking the room from outside .

But,on Friday , one Dalit woman , Saraswati Sethy, the secretary of  Maa Ambika Self Help Group (SHG), after getting green signal from the local administration  prepared Mid Day meal for the students .But out of 111 students present in the school only 28 students, including 13 girls, came to eat the Mid Day Meal that was prepared by the Dalit Woman on yesterday.

Even on Friday a meeting was organized between the Dalits and Upper caste people in this regard to settle the matter amicably, but when the matter was worsened in the meeting ,police arrested the VEC member, informed locals.

It may be noted here that a team of Supreme Court State adviser on Right to Food on last  week visited the  Sanamarichipali village to investigate about the atrocity on dalit women cooks ,who were prevented by  upper caste villagers and school authority to cook midday meal for the student in the school.

Meanwhile ,the district  administration and the school teachers are trying their best to take the parents of the upper caste students into confidence to resolve the matter, informed. the District Magistrate , Sisrkanta Panda.