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.

#WATCH Telangana: A police team & forest guards were attacked allegedly by Telangana Rashtra Samithi workers in Sirpur Kagaznagar block of Komaram Bheem Asifabad district, during a tree plantation drive. (29-06) pic.twitter.com/FPlME1ygCp

¡ª ANI (@ANI) June 30, 2019

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.

#anitha was attacked by the mob for undertaking afforestation programme under #kaleshwaram project which is the CM's pet project. The #forest deptt says the #trs mla has "malafide intention to occupy the reserve forest land" @FilterKaapiLive pic.twitter.com/D7kpJLs107

¡ª T S Sudhir (@Iamtssudhir) June 30, 2019

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.

In this video, #Anitha identifies Krishna as the man who hit her and led the mob, says he is the brother of the mla. Her injuries are visible and she is in pain. Will #trs chief #kcr take action. Anitha was there to supervise a plantation drive. @FilterKaapiLive pic.twitter.com/Wj6LLmlrSR

¡ª T S Sudhir (@Iamtssudhir) June 30, 2019

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.

¡°An attack on a uniformed personal of the state is an attack on the state itself¡± a Lady Forest Range Officer in Kagaznagar Telangana beaten mercilessly for compensatory afforestation in Sarsala village by the brother of the local MLA Koneru Krishna and goons in police presence pic.twitter.com/Nxdv7JG59x

¡ª Randeep Hooda (@RandeepHooda) June 30, 2019

The FRO Kagaznagar was stopping illegal cultivation from the last 3 months and was carrying out her duties trying to protect the Govt tractor when she was attacked and beaten with sticks..a similar incident had happened at Tipeshawer sanctuary. Local mafia with political support pic.twitter.com/sUH1mzcQsc

¡ª Randeep Hooda (@RandeepHooda) June 30, 2019

Letter submitted by the DFO Kagaznagar.Sirpur-Kagaznagar is one of the last remaining corridors for the surplus tigers flowing from Tadoba Reserve forest to Kawal TR. With a capacity to hold more than a 100 tigers, Kawal has been tiger-less owing to the defunct corridors.Pls help pic.twitter.com/PDYcEQ3DG0

¡ª Randeep Hooda (@RandeepHooda) June 30, 2019

Dear sirs @narendramodi @PrakashJavdekar @pmo @SuPriyoBabulforest @HardeepSPuri @AmitShah officers and staff of the forest department are often left to their own mercies trying to protect the most invaluable assets of our country due to rampant corruption criminal activities ??

¡ª Randeep Hooda (@RandeepHooda) June 30, 2019

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.