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`Giant footprints' draw curious onlookers

By Our Staff Correspondent

BIJAPUR, SEPT. 28. Giant footprints reportedly found in the compound of a district judge's house in Navabag locality led to a law and order problem here today.

Police had to repeatedly resort to mild lathi-charge to control the curious onlookers thronging the place. The footprints were found outside the house of the Principal Civil Judge (Senior Division), A.C. Singoti.

Around 5 p.m. on Monday, Mr. Singoti's son, Syed Majid, said that he went through a "strange experience" and saw a giant human-like figure.

People from the surrounding areas started gathering in front of the house to get a glimpse of the "gigantic footprints."

However, the police said that someone had played a prank. The Navabag area, where many officers' quarters are located, has a number of sandalwood trees. The police are not ruling out the hand of land grabbers and sandalwood smugglers in the episode.

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