Hyderabad, May 13 -- The environmental activists who were detained by Banjara Hills police for just hugging the trees outside the Kasu Brahmananda Reddy (KBR) Park in Banjara Hills, have stated that they were charged under various sections, just with the intention of intimidating them, and deterring other activists from repeating the same.

The activists who tried a Chipko Movement-style protest in the middle of the night realised the harsh reality that they are not living in the 1970s, and that they were dealing with the Telangana government, where text book references of great movements from the school days were actually much different from the ground reality.

In a video address, Vijay, one of the activists who wasn't detained, but was...