India, Oct. 27 -- Chaotic scenes were witnessed as irate villagers clashed with Forest personnel and gheraoed them after an elderly woman was allegedly assaulted a female guard in Nilagiri in Odisha's Balasore district.

The angry locals stormed the Gopalpur beat office, which comes under Nilagiri forest range, and beseiged the area questioning the high-handedness of the ground staff. They also alleged atrocities meted out to villagers for innocuous acts of survival.

Elderly woman 'assaulted' for breaking tree branch for goats As per reports, one elderly woman Katimani Singh had gone to the nearby forest to graze goats. While browsing the jungle, she broke a couple of twigs for the livestock. On seeing this, the female guard rushed towa...