55-year-old man killed in wild elephant attack in Chamarajnagar forest area
Chamarajnagar: A 55-year-old man was killed in an incident of elephant attack in the Aladakere forests near PG Palya of Hanur taluk on Sunday evening.
The deceased has been identified as Prabhuswamy, who was collecting dry blades of grass in the area to make broomsticks.
Prabhuswamy and his son Chandru went to the forest area at Aladakere Doddi under PG Palya in the Male Mahadeshwara Wildlife Sanctuary to collect grass when they were attacked by an elephant in the forest. While Chandru managed to escape, his father was killed in the wild animal attack.
Prabhuswamy’s body was moved to the Hanur Primary Health Centre for a post-mortem, said sources.
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Bengal polls: RG Kar victim's mother files nomination as BJP candidate from Panihati
Kolkata (PTI): Ratna Debnath, mother of the raped-murdered RG Kar hospital doctor and the BJP candidate from Panihati, filed her nomination papers on Thursday.
She was accompanied by senior BJP leader and former Union minister Smriti Irani and district party leaders.
Speaking to reporters after filing her nomination, she said her sole aim is to oust the TMC regime in West Bengal, which, she alleged, would ensure women's safety in the state and prevent a recurrence of incidents like the RG Kar case.
Nearly a year and a half after the brutal killing of her 26-year-old daughter inside a locked seminar room of the state-run hospital in August 2024, Debnath agreed to contest the polls on a BJP ticket from her hometown Panihati after being approached by the party "to bring to light the truth behind the crime".
She is pitted against TMC's Tirthankar Ghosh and CPI(M)'s Kalatan Dasgupta.
