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Dolphin beaten to death
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NewsByte on 08 May, 2008 04:16:07
 
By AMITA VERMA
Lucknow, May 8: Ignorant villages beat a male dolphin to death and grievously
injured another female dolphin in the Sharda canal in Nagram village, on the
outskirts of Lucknow.
The dolphins had strayed into the canal and the villagers mistook it for some
"killer fish" and beat it with rods. One of the villagers then put the dead
dolphin on a wheel cart and was towing it away when the Nagram police caught
him. The man has been taken into custody.
The Nagram police informed the forest officials who then sent the dead dolphin
for post-mortem.
According to sub-divisional officer (forest) Lucknow, Mahendra Pratap Singh,
the dolphin belonged to the "Gangetic Dolphin species."
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MNS chief gets notice from police
Mumbai, May 8: The police on Thursday served a notice on MNS chief Raj
Thackeray, who targeted North Indians recently, asking him to observe restraint
and not to commit any cognisable offence through his speeches and writings which
can create law and order problems.
Raj, however, refused to accept the notice forcing the police team to paste it
outside his Shivaji Park residence here.
The notice says a certain section of the society feels insecure in the wake of
recent events which can create a law and order situation, said a senior police
officer who pasted the notice on Raj’s residence late on Thursday evening.
"In his political activities, he must not commit any cognisable crime is what
the notice says," said the officer. (PTI)