Tiger claw locket case: Court reserves bail order of accused Varthur Santhosh till Friday
Bengaluru: In a fresh development in the Tiger claw locket case, The second Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (ACJM) court, which heard the bail plea application of Bigg Boss Kannada season 10 contestant Varthur Santhosh, following his arrest on Sunday, has reserved its decision for Friday, October 27.
Santhosh's lawyer, Nataraj, and the government prosecutor presented the case before the court. Following the hearing, the judge reserved the decision on the bail application for Friday.
Santhosh was taken into custody by forest officials in response to a complaint alleging that he possessed a tiger claw pendant. During his arrest, the officials also confiscated the tiger claw pendant worn by Santhosh. Subsequently, he was presented before the court and remanded to judicial custody for a period of 14 days. Santhosh applied for bail at the time of his arrest.
In the meantime, following Santosh’s arrest, several popular personalities including Sandalwood actors Darshan, Jaggesh and JD(S) Leader Nikhil Kumaraswamy also came under the forest department’s scanner. This has led to a growing chorus for stringent action against the individuals. Simultaneously, the state government on Wednesday formed a high-level committee, in order to create public awareness and to submit a comprehensive report on the measures to be taken to tackle the sale of wildlife articles made from any body part of wild animals.
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Two injuries, one DNF, a DQ as India end messy World Relays campaign
Gaborone (Botswana) (PTI): Amoj Jacob and Ragul Kumar got injured during the men's 4x400m and 4x100 races respectively as India ended their World Athletics Relays campaign in disappointment on the second day of competitions here on Sunday.
The Indian camp had high hopes of making the 2027 World Championships in the men's 4x400m relay but the team did not finish (DNF) the race as Jacob suffered cramps and pulled out of the race after taking the baton from the first leg runner Dharamveer Choudhary. Rajesh Ramesh and Vishal TK were to run in the third and fourth legs.
Those teams which could not qualify for the 2027 Beijing World Championships by reaching the final round of each of the six relay events on Saturday were given another chance in the second qualification round on Sunday.
The top two teams in each of the two heats (in all six relay events) booked the Beijing ticket on Sunday.
India will now have to try and qualify for the World Championships through the Top Lists of the World Athletics, which is a long and tedious process.
In the men's 4x100m race, third leg runner Ragul Kumar fell down the track after failing to hand over the baton inside the exchange zone to fourth leg runner Gurindervir Singh, which clearly showed the lack of coordination among the runners.
Harsh Santosh Raut and Animesh Kujur ran the first two legs.
The Indian quartet was disqualified and Kumar was seen being taken away from the Field of Play with the help of the volunteers.
It was a comedy of errors in the case of the women's 4x100m race, which saw the baton being dropped during an exchange between first leg runner Tamanna and second runner Nithya Gandhe, though the Indians finished the race in 53.09 seconds.
Gandhe started running quite a distance, but after realising that the baton was not in her hand, she turned and ran back to pick it up.
The only silver-lining for the Indian contingent was the national record time in the mixed 4x100m relay race, though the quartet of Ragul Kumar, Nithya Gandhe, Animesh Kujur and Sneha SS finished sixth in heat number two with a time of 41.35 seconds, bettering the previous national mark of 42.30 seconds set in March in Chandigarh.
The mixed 4x400m relay quartet of Theerthesh P Shetty, Kumari Saloni, Nihal William and Rashdeep Kaur ended at fifth in heat number one with a time of 3 minutes and 19.40 seconds.
On Saturday, all the five Indian relay teams had failed to make it to the respective final rounds and thus missed out on the 2027 World Championships berths.
