A video of an elderly woman weeping beside a Peepal tree she had planted two decades ago, after it was cut down, has gone viral on social media. The incident, which occurred in Chhattisgarh’s Rajnandgaon district, has left the entire village in a state of anger and grief.
The clip shows the elderly woman crying inconsolably near a freshly cut Peepal tree. Villagers say the woman treated the tree like her own child.
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