Gopi Murder Case Update

Staff Reporter

Port Blair, Mar 30: The Andaman and Nicobar Police today managed to recover a thick steel-bending rod, which was allegedly used to kill P Gopi by accused Venkat Durga Prasad.

The recovery was possible after nearly three day long search operation in and around the coastal best of Bambooflat (infornt of Suryachakra Power Plant). Earlier even with metal detectors, divers of Police Marine Force could not locate the Steel Rod.

Eye witnesses say that today’s recovery was possible as police had tried an old and simple but effective technique, to locate the murder weapon. It has been learnt that the police had asked the accused to throw stones into the sea twice. Both stone reportedly went very far from the site, where police was earlier conducting the search operation. After searching near the site, where both the stone had reached, police team recovered the Steel Rod. It is believed that recovery of the Steel Rod will help police to present a strong case in court.

Garbage bins or waste bins ???

Staff Correspondent
Diglipur, Mar 21: Subhash Gram Pachayat of Diglipur Island is known for experimenting with various types of garbage bins and failing miserably in every such attempt.

Few years back the Panchayat had placed garbage bins made of fibre later garbage bins with ‘Sintex’ mark were placed in different locations, which did not yield any result. Presently Subhash Gram Panchayat has placed several weird designed Garbage bins, which are neither painted nor shaped properly. These Garbage bins, once placed were never cleaned as no one revisited the site to clean these garbage bins, hence the entire surrounding area of these garbage bins have now become a garbage dumping yard.

It has become impossible for people to cross the area where these garbage bins have been placed because of nose busting foul smell.

When contacted the Pradhan of Subhash Gram Mr. P R Singaram said that the Panchayat is regularly cleaning all the garbage bins but when Andaman Sheekha gave reference about photographs he said “This is because only on Sunday we don’t clean these garbage bins.”

When asked about damaged garbage bins he said “Only two garbage bins are damaged and we will replace the same as early as possible.” However villagers of Subhash Gram alleged that most of the time the garbage bins remain unattended, which has become a nightmare for them.

Port Blair, Mar 12: Master Yash has been selected as first kid from Andaman and Nicobar Islands to participate in Mumbai Audition of Dance India Dance. The selection for the Mumbai Audition was held at JNRM today. Though the event was totally unorganised and has caused lot of inconvenience to little children and their parents the finally atleast one child could make it for the big audition at Mumbai.

Alok Mandal

Port Blair, Mar 23: The Member of Parliament of Andaman andNicobar Islands, Mr.  Bishnu Pada Ray today alleged that the Administration is not serious about solving the water crisis inA & N Islands.

Addressing a press conference today the MP said that the work of raising height of Dhanikari Dam has been hit by shortage of construction materials and for the lethargic attitude of Administration the NHPC is not able to manage construction materials by its own.

He said that in November 2011 the work was stopped by NHPC due to shortage of materials and after two long months the Administration has provided a quarry to NHPC to extract construction materials but sadly till now the blasting permission has not been given the NHPC, which is again causing delay.

“The Administration should have helped the NHPC in this crucial water project. But as the Administration is not serious the file movement is taking time,” the MP said.

Staff reporter
Port Blair, Mar 11: Three people got injuries in a road accident yesterday when a speeding R1-5 bike smashed a Honda Activa. According to reports, the riders of both the vehicles were going towards South Point but the Honda Activa rider was coming from India Map’s direction and the R1-5 rider was coming from Swimming Pool’s direction. According to eye witnesses near the Girls School traffic point the R1-5 hit the Honda active, which injured the Honda Activa rider and both the riders of R1-5. According to details both the riders of R1-5 were minors and were drunk.

Staff Correspondent
Diglipur, North Andaman, Mar 11: The deadlock of North Andaman’s Diglipur Island over shifting of ‘Shiv Ling’, ended peacefully on Saturday morning after the District Administration and protesting public reached to a compromise.

The break through came after second round of meeting early Saturday morning, though the decision to end the deadlock was almost planned on Friday evening after first round of meeting between the Deputy Commissioner of North and Middle Andaman Mr. Udit Prakash and Protesting public.

On Saturday morning, as per the demands of villagers the ‘Shiv Ling’, which was earlier removed by the District Administration on 8th March 2012, was brought back to the makeshift temple, after which the ‘Shiv Ling’ was installed in a nearby temple by the temple committee, with all religious rituals and great devotion.

With this the Bandh and road blockade ended in Diglipur, bringing relief for common man.

“All villagers blocked road and even had food on road and because of this protest, the District Administration had to return the Shiv Ling. There was absolutely no necessity to remove the Shiv Ling from its original place when the villagers were ready to shift the Idol in three days,” Member of Parliament of A & N Islands, Mr. Bishnu Pada Ray, who had lead the villagers in road blockade and Bandh at Diglipur told ‘Andaman Sheekha’ yesterday.