The attack underlines the risk that many of the villagers in the area face while fishing for crabs in the Sunderbans even though it’s illegal in the protected reserve.
Bapu Gonda Talandi, 40, was intercepted by a group on a road near his Neelamgudam village in Aheri tehsil early in the morning and his throat was slit with a sharp weapon.
Leighton said Thiess Minecs chief executive Raman Srikanth was arrested in connection with an ongoing civil proceeding filed by Roshni Developers in Singapore.
