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Tuesday, Jun 21, 2005

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Unfortunate

It is shameful that a person of Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi's stature should have taken so long to surrender in connection with a poaching case. The police had to launch a search for him and it was only after the High Court denied him anticipatory bail that he gave himself up. This was not a game of cricket for Pataudi to duck a fast delivery. There is nothing more graceful and dignified than proving one's innocence in the eyes of the law.

A. Raghavendra Rao,
Visakhapatnam, A.P.

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Whether Pataudi was indeed involved in the killing of a blackbuck and two rabbits will be known only after the investigations are complete. But it was only because his name was mentioned in connection with the incident that it made media headlines. There are many not-so-familiar personalities, mostly locals, in the vicinity of sanctuaries or zoological parks who hunt endangered species but go scot-free.

P. Kannan,
Srivilliputtur, T.N.

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