Telangana: Pregnant Forest Officer Injured As Kagaznagar Villagers Attack Her During Awareness Drive

Forest officials organised Kalajatha (art show) in Ootpalli on Tuesday to raise awareness of fire accidents.

Sirisha, Forest Range Officer at the hospital(Image:ABP Desam)

Hyderabad: The Kagaznagar Forest Range officials were attacked by villagers at Ootpally in the Kagaznagar zone of Komaram Bheem Asifabad district on Tuesday.

In this incident, one of the forest staff members Shirisha, who is currently eight months pregnant, was attacked despite informing the agitated crowd that she is pregnant. To get rid of the attack she had to run away but she was hit by the crowd and later got admitted to a hospital, reports ABP Desam. 

Telangana's Ootpalli come under the demarcation limits of Kagaznagar Forest Range. Forest officials organised Kalajatha (an art show) in Ootpalli on Tuesday to create awareness about fire accidents.

Amid act, the villagers got agitated thinking that the forest officials were preventing them from taking firewood, according to ABP Desam.

Assuming that they would be attacked, the group of forest officials who were performing the act to create awareness among people have stopped the program. And tried to escape from the spot. Sirisha, the Forest Beat Officer of Kosini and the watchmen Devsingh, Ramu & Shankar rushed to their vehicles to leave the place as there was an growing anger amonst people against the forest officials.

However, the villagers stopped and attacked them with sticks and pelted stones. Shirisha's left arm was reportedly injured in the attack. 

After receiving information from the staff, Sirisha's husband immediately rushed her to a private hospital in Kagaznagar. She was later rushed to Mancherial Hospital for further treatment.

At the hospital, Sirisha said that 30-40 people came to attack while she was about to leave the place. Despite knowing that she was pregnent, the villagers attempted to hit her with sticks. "They did not listen when I told them that I was pregnant. I ran and escaped from there. Something would have happened to my child or me if I hadn't run," ABP Desam quoted Shirisha as saying.

(With inputs from ABP Desam — It is a Telugu platform of ABP News. For more news, commentary and latest happenings from two Telugu states, follow https://telugu.abplive.com/)