Port Blair, Dec 30: A student of Government Sr. Secondary School Model, Class IX committed suicide four days back in her residence, following minor family issue. The Girl Radha (Name Changed) resident of RGT Road, committed suicide when her parents did not allow her to go to one of her relatives’ house, while her brother was allowed.

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Port Blair, Dec 26: It seems that in Andamans, elephant tusks are pouring down from sky. The CID team has recently busted three cases of Elephant Tusk Smuggling. Although, in the first case the seized materials, turned out to be bones of dead whales but in last two cases the seized materials were later confirmed to be Elephant Tusks.

Highly places sources told Andaman Sheekha that some Karen families in Mayabunder area are actually selling these elephant tusks to agents, who are later selling these Tusks to underground dealers at Port Blair. These underground dealers, who run big businesses in Andaman, later sell these Tusks in Mainland India.

This has already been confessed by an accused of recent Elephant Tusk Smuggling Case.

Sadly neither Police nor the Forest Department are investigating in this issue. It appears that a highly organised gang of poachers are killing feral elephants of Interview Island for these tusks and for a good fortune. But, the Forest Department, as usual, is refusing to accept the facts.

When contacted, Dr.Shashi Kumar, IFS, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (Wildlife) and Chief Wildlife Warden refused to accept that any kind of elephant poaching is going on inside Forest area.

“We can’t say that elephant poaching is going on. Elephants may have died a natural death, like aging or while fighting for the survival etc. The tusks might have been hacked out of the dead Elephants,” Mr. Shashi claimed, adding that “investigations are going on. We are waiting for the final report.”

However, when questioned the PCCF (wildlife) could not give any detail about the number of elephants present in Interview Island. “We don’t have clear report regarding that. We are still working on it,” he said.

However, the PCCF, added another strange angle to this story by saying that the Forest Department also suspect that these elephant tusks might have been brought to Andaman from Mainland. Very strange statement indeed, very hard to digest.

“There are possibilities that these tusks were brought from Mainland or other Countries. We have to interrogate into this matter. However, these arrests show that how proactive we are. Police and forests department are taking swift actions,” he said, knowing fully well that all such cases were busted only by the Police Department and not the Forest Department. Hope someday the investigation of Forest Department will end, hopefully, well before the last elephant of Interview Island is killed by poachers.

Staff Reporter

Port Blair, Dec 23: A man strangled his wife to death in Ram Niwas lodge of Port Blair, early Sunday morning over an extra marital affair. The deceased, Mrs. Neetu Day, aged 25 years was a resident of 24 Paragana District of West Bengal but was presently living in Havelock with her Husband and daughter.

According to sources, Neetu had developed an extra marital affair with a resident of Havelock. Her husband, Sanatan Mandal, 30 years, recently got to know about Neetu’s affair and since then the couple were having frequent quarrels. It is learnt that the boyfriend of Neetu had recently threatened Neetu’s Husband, which left Sanatan fuming.

According to reports, today morning also a quarrel broke up, which resulted in the murder of Neetu. Neetu had a nine year old daughter, who was present inside the room of the lodge, when she was murdered.

Later Sanatan, surrendered himself to Police. A murder case has already been registered in this regard and further investigation is on.

Port Blair, Nov 30: The CBI, SPE, Port Blair Branch registered a criminal case on 29.11.2012 against Mr. Benedict, Accounts Officer, O/o Joint Controller of Defence Accounts, Buniyadabad, Port Blair, for demanding a bribe of Rs. 20,000/- from an employees of the Naval Ship Repair Yard, Port Blair who had retired and the bribe was for passing and making payment of his pensionary benefits. The employee of the Naval Ship Repair Yard, who is the complainant, had taken VRS on 30.10.2012 and pensionary benefits to the tune of around Rs.3.00 lakhs were due to him but were held up by Mr. Benedict till his demand was made. The demand of the bribe was initially was Rs.30.000/- which was brought down to Rs.20.000/- by Mr. Benedict. The residences of Mr. Benedict at Port Blair and also at Mumbai were simultaneously searched and incriminating evidence was seized.

The CBI team headed by the Inspector caught Mr. Benedit red handed on29.11.2012 at around 0815 PM at his residence at Lillypur while demanding and accepting the bribe and the tainted money was recovered from his possession. Mr. Benedict has been arrested and will be produced before the Special Judge, A&N Islands, Port Blair on 30.11.2012.

The trap was the result of the SMS campaigning launched by the CBI for the general public to come forward and lodge complaints against public servants demanding bribe for doing official work.

Port Blair, Nov 29: A team of PS Aberdeen yesterday evening busted yet another Prostitution Racket from Round Basti area and arrested six girls and also a lady who was operating the racket.

Sources said that nearly four to five persons including one defence person have also been arrested by Police

According reports the raid was conducted under the overall supervision of Dy.S.P (South Andaman) Mr. Anyesh Roy and the team was headed by SHO PS Aberdeen, Mr. N S Stalin.

Port Blair, Nov 14: On a secret information, the Police team of Central Crime Station led by SI Mohd. Sameer, I/C Central Crime Station, alongwith SI N. Zainuddin, SI PMK Kumar, HCs K.R. Murgeshan, K. Venkateshwar Rao and Jerome Peter, PCs Udaya Kumaran, Sujit Dutta, Mohd. Haneefa, Ashique Iqbal, Nadir, Karthick Uraon, Vikas Kumar Yadav and Augustin and HG(D)/ Hemant Rao conducted raid at Wandoor and arrested 10 persons namely l) Aswani Bala 2) Haridoy Mistry 3) Jogan Baishnab 4) N.V. Harilal 5) N.K. Haldhar 6) S.K. Dutta 7) Prahlad Mondal 8) M.K.Baroi 9) S.K. Mondal 10) R.K. Mistry, who were found gambling with playing cards and recovered Rs. 1,02,260/-(Rupees One Lakh Two Thousand Two Hundred and Sixty only) including Rs. 82260/-(Rupees Eighty Two Thousand Two Hundred and Sixty only) as stake money on the night of 12/11/2012. Later, they were challaned under the appropriate sections of law.

The general public is requested to provide credible information pertaining to any illegal activities on the following telephone Numbers- 232586, 233307 and 100. The identity of the informer will be kept secret.

Staff Correspondent
Port Blair, Oct 30: In a shocking incident a girl working in a private shop was exploited by her boyfriend for several months. According to reports the boy used to blackmail the girl with some objectionable photos.

Later the photos were shared with some more people by the boyfriend, who too exploited the girl. The situation went out of control when those photos were leaked by the boy, forcing the girl to lodge a police complaint. According to reports till now three persons have been arrested by Police and search is on for a few more.

But talking to Andaman Sheekha the Dy. S P (South Andaman) Mr. Aynesh Roy said that “Till now we have arrested only one person and he was sent to Judicial Custody. Search is on for another accused, who is absconding,” the Dy. S P added. Further details are awaited.