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Man gets life term for murder
The Hindu
Kasaragod Additional District Judge A.V. Unnikrishnan has sentenced Abdul Lathifi, 42, to life imprisonment and imposed a fine of ₹1 lakh for the murder of Sameer, 28, who was stabbed to death in 2008
Kasaragod Additional District Judge A.V. Unnikrishnan has sentenced Abdul Lathifi, 42, to life imprisonment and imposed a fine of ₹1 lakh for the murder of Sameer, 28, who was stabbed to death in 2008 in Kumbala. He was sentenced to another five years’ rigorous imprisonment and a fine of ₹50,000 for causing injuries to Sameer’s friend Red Moithu. Additional Public Prosecutor Balakrishnan represented the prosecution. Sameer had come home on holiday from the Gulf and got married 20 days before the incident. In the case registered by the Kumbala police, the then Circle Inspector K. Damodaran investigated the case and the accused, who had fled to Karnataka after the murder, was taken into custody from Belgaum.![](/newspic/picid-1269750-20250217064624.jpg)
When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.