Telangana woman officer, attacked by TRS leader, booked under SC/ST Act

A week after a woman forest officer was attacked by a mob allegedly led by a ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi leader in Telangana’s Komaram Bheem Asifabad district, the police booked a case against her and 15 of her colleagues under SC/ST Atrocities (Prevention) Act.
Chole Anitha, a forest range officer at Kaghaznagar, was assaulted by a mob of tribals, supported by local TRS leader and Zilla Parishad vice-chairman Koneru Krishna Rao at Sarsala village of Kaghaznagar block when she along with other forest officials had gone there for a tree plantation programme on June 30, said on Monday that the case has been foisted on her.
Rao, brother of TRS MLA from Sirpur Kaghaznagar Koneru Konappa, was seen beating Anitha and her colleagues indiscriminately with sticks. He later resigned from the vice-chairman post and was subsequently arrested along with 13 others.
The police booked cases against Krishna Rao and 13 others under several sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) including attempt murder.
On Sunday, a local tribal woman Nayini Saroja, from Sarsala, lodged a complaint at the Esugaon police station stating that Anitha and her colleagues in the forest department had abused them by taking their ‘caste’ name.

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