Parassala: Sand mafia is likely behind the break-in at the house of Daly, an 80-year-old woman who led a single-handed battle against sand mining in River Neyyar. She was away at an orphanage after her house was flooded and returned home on Monday after four months only to find it ransacked.
Her property documents, pension book etc, kept in a box, were found burned. The lock of the backdoor of the house was found smashed.
Daly owned 10 cents of land opposite to the Kanjiramood Jetty where sand mining is intense. The mining has shrunk her property to about three cents.
Daly reached home on a country boat as the road to her house was destroyed in the flood.
Local people suspect the sand mafia behind the break-in
