Monitor Lizard (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

In the most unbelievable incident ever, four men were arrested for allegedly raping a Bengal monitor lizard in Sahyadri Tiger Reserve (STR). The reserve is spread over four districts of Satara, Sangli, Kolhapur and Ratnagiri in Maharashtra.

The gruesome incident took place at Gothane village in Ratnagiri district on March 31 when the four accused illegally entered Chandoli National Park (part of the reserve). One of the four was also carrying a gun for hunting.

The Maharashtra Forest Department checked the mobile phone of one of the accused and that’s when he learnt about the incident. The officials found the recording of the act, which showed the accused allegedly gang-raping the monitor lizard.

A forest official said the four accused were identified as Sandeep Tukaram Pawar, Mangesh Kamtekar, Akshay Kamtekar and Ramesh Ghag.

The official said, “During the investigation, the forest officials found that the accused had allegedly raped a Bengal monitor lizard. Their act was also recorded in a mobile phone of one of the accused persons. We have recovered all the related evidence from the accused and they were granted forest department custody initially, but are out on bail now. They have been asked to mark their presence before the forest officer, who is probing the case, every Monday.”
“The four accused have been booked under various sections of the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972,” said field director of Sahyadri Tiger Reserve (STR), Nanasaheb Ladkat.

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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) received an e-mail by an unknown sender threatening to kill Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The email read, “I have more than 20 kg of RDX that has been planted in 20 big cities to execute the same bumber of bomb blasts. I want to kill Modi as fast as I can. And I will bombard this prime minister, he has killed my life, destroyed my life. The sender also claimed to have activated sleeper cells on February 28. I will not leave anyone and will kill more than 20 million people.”

Details of the email (Source: ABP)

The email  further read, “If you can stop me then try to stop me, I have planned attacks everywhere.” The email was reportedly sent to Mumbai branch of the NIA, which would investigate the issue. 

In 2018, Maharashtra Police had told a court that a plot to assassinate PM Modi in a ‘Rajiv Gandhi-type incident’ during one of his roadshows, was revealed in a letter seized from a suspected Maoist.