Forest Range Officer killed by Gutti Koya tribes in Telangana

Challamalla Srinivas was murdered with axes and sickles over alleged encroachment of land in Errabodu forest; the FRO

was trying to prevent a group of local tribal people from removing saplings in a plantation raised by the Forest Department

AForest Range Ofcer (FRO) was allegedly brutally killed by a group of Gutti Koya

Adivasis with axes and sickles over a "podu land" issue (encroachment on forest lands) in the Errabodu forests in the Chandrugonda mandal of Telangana's

Bhadradri Kothagudem district.