
ADILABAD: Scores of adivasis belonging to Bejjur mandal staged a protest and rasta roko on Thursday and gave an ultimatum to the forest officials to either catch the tiger, which recently killed a tribal girl at Kondapally village in Asifabad, in one week or let them take up the task of nabbing the big cat.
During the protest, Girijana Sangam district vice-president K Srinivas and ZPTC Padram Pushpalatha demanded that the government provide the family members of the victim a compensation amount of `20 lakh, five acres of farmland, a double bedroom house and government job to one her kin.On learning about the protest, Bejjur SI Sagar reached the spot and assured them to catch the tiger in no time.