Four-year-old girl killed in leopard attack in UP's Bahraich village
Bahraich (UP) (PTI): A four-year-old girl was killed in a leopard attack in a village under the Katarniaghat Wildlife Division in Uttar Pradesh's Bahraich district, officials said on Friday.
According to villagers, Anushka (4), daughter of Manoj, a resident of Mukhia Farm village under Rampurwa gram panchayat in the Nishangarha Range, was playing in the courtyard outside her house when a leopard emerged from a nearby sugarcane field and dragged her away in its jaws on Thursday evening.
Family members and villagers chased the animal after raising an alarm, following which the leopard dropped the child about 50 metres from the house and fled into the bushes near a canal, they said.
The injured girl was rushed to a hospital but she died on the way. A family member said injury marks were visible on her neck and nose.
Nishangarha Range Officer Surendra Srivastava said the girl died due to the leopard attack. A forest department team inspected the spot late at night.
He said the department provided Rs 10,000 as immediate financial assistance to the bereaved family for the last rites. Patrolling has been intensified in the area, with four teams deployed for continuous monitoring and villagers being sensitised.
Police have sent the body for post-mortem examination.
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Sangh Parivar still afraid of Mahatma Gandhi: Kerala CM
Thiruvananthapuram (PTI): Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Friday paid homage to Mahatma Gandhi on his 78th death anniversary and claimed that the Sangh Parivar was still afraid of him and his memory and that is why his name was removed from the rural employment guarantee scheme.
Vijayan, in a Facebook post, said that Gandhi was killed because of his uncompromising stance on secularism and his vision of a pluralistic India that embraces diversity and disagreement.
He claimed that the Sangh Parivar was afraid of the memory of the Father of the Nation and hence his name was removed from the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.
"Why are they still afraid of Gandhiji? The answer is simple. Gandhiji's life and vision are the exact opposite of the politics of hatred and alienation envisioned by the Sangh Parivar," the CM contended.
He further claimed that the Sangh Parivar was trying to remove Gandhi from the lives of the ordinary people.
Vijayan said that unity in diversity was "the foundation stone of the Indian Republic" and everyone should be committed to protecting it from the "totalitarian tendencies that suppress dissent".
He claimed that there were certain forces which were trying to "rewrite history and elevate communal murderers as heroes" in order to lead the country towards totalitarianism.
The Marxist veteran said that Gandhi was "not assassinated by a man named Godse, but by an embodiment of the politics of hatred promoted by the Sangh Parivar" which is still trying to attack and destroy the Constitution and the democratic values of the country.
He said that Gandhi's martyrdom was a constant call for the anti-communal struggle.
Leader of Opposition in the state assembly V D Satheesan too claimed that the Sangh Parivar was afraid of Gandhi.
In his message on Facebook paying tribute to the Father of the Nation, Satheesan said that Sangh Parivar was even afraid of the memories of Gandhi and that is why they were "erasing books and writings" to hide things from people.
He too said that the assassin of Gandhi was not just a man, but an ideology.
Satheesan said that even though the Sangh Parivar shot him down, Gandhi still lives on after his death.
Gandhi, the most prominent face of India's freedom movement, was assassinated by Nathuram Godse on this day in 1948.
