Randeep Hooda Appeals To PM Modi For Help After Lady Forest Officer Gets Beaten Up In Telangana

A shocking video emerged on Sunday morning showing mob led by Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) MLA Koneru Konappa's brother, Koneru Krishna Rao?attacking lady Forest Range Officer (FRO) C Anitha. She was there for a tree plantation drive.

The video shows mob mercilessly beating the woman officer with sticks and rods while she was on her duty. In the video, she can be seen climbing up a tractor to safeguard herself. But the villagers didn’t give up even then.

In another video, she named Krishna Rao as the assailant. Anitha was there for Telangana government's Telanganaku Haritha Haram initiative, which is a tree plantation drive.

The tensions started to brew up after Anitha and forest officials accompanying her identified the land as forest reserve land where they wanted to plant the saplings. However, it is alleged that the locals and MLA’s brother had "malafide intention to occupy the reserve forest land". They claimed the land to be theirs.

Bollywood actor Randeep Hooda who often works for social causes took to Twitter to seek the help of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Amit Shah, Prakash Javadekar among other BJP officials. He also detailed out the incident in a series of tweets.

According to a report on TNM,?Koneru Krishna Rao has been arrested. A case has also been registered against 15 others who were involved besides, Krishna. Koneru Krishna Rao has also resigned his post as Zilla Parishad Vice Chairman.

Meanwhile, Randeep Hooda will be next be seen in Imtiaz Ali's yet-to-be titled movie that also stars Sara Ali Khan and Kartik Aaryan. ?The film is slated to hit the theatres on Valentine's Day 2020.