Death of woman after touching live electric wire laid to hunt wild boars
Four arrested, accused in judicial custody
Karkala, September 19: Karkala police arrested one more accused in the death of Girija Poojarthi after touching the live electric wire laid for hunting wild boars, on Wednesday. The accused is identified as Shivaram Shetty (80) of Posral of Mundkur village.
The police produced all the four including Shivaram Shetty before the local court which remanded them to the judicial custody for 14 days. The police team led by Karkala rural police station PSI Nasir Hussain arrested the accused at Jarige Katte in Mundkur village on September 18. The police also recovered two cars, three mobile phones and Rs 35,000 cash from the accused.
It is said that the accused have tried to cover-up the incident of death of Girija Poojarthi who died on September 8, by dumping the body at Kandiga near Kanthavara village. The incident came to light on September 17. Karkala rural police registered a case.
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Karnataka: Forest Minister Eshwar Khandre unveils plan for scientific disposal of plastic bottles
Bengaluru: In a bid to address the mounting plastic waste problem, Eshwar B. Khandre, Minister for Forests, Ecology, and Environment, has directed the additional chief secretary of the department to formulate regulations that will require packaged water bottle manufacturers to take responsibility for the scientific disposal of plastic bottles.
As part of the proposed plan, Khandre has suggested introducing a minimum price for each water bottle, which would be refunded when the bottle is returned to any establishment selling packaged water, as reported by Deccan Herald on Monday.
Under this initiative, when a person buys a new water bottle, the minimum price for each returned bottle would be discounted from the bill for the new one.
The goal is to ensure that empty bottles are returned to the shops where they were purchased, preventing them from being discarded in public spaces or ending up in the environment. Under the plan, these establishments would then return the empty bottles to manufacturers, who would be responsible for the scientific disposal of the plastic.
Khandre emphasised that the proposed regulations are aimed at tackling plastic pollution more effectively. Although the central government has already banned the manufacture, storage, sale, and use of certain single-use plastics, and the state government has enacted similar regulations, plastic waste continues to be a significant environmental challenge.
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