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Quarry ring-fences family of 11 on farmland
The New Indian Express Madurai
|August 07, 2025
SURROUNDED by deep quarries and stone crushers, a lone patch of green now feels like a prison. A family of 11, including four school-going children and an elderly woman, has been stuck for the past one week in the isolated land where they have farmed and lived for decades in Nalmukkal village, around 15 km from Tindivanam, after a quarry owner blocked all access routes by erecting fences as part of an alleged tactic to pressurise them into selling their property.
The seven-acre plot owned by brothers E Selvam (47) and E Ravichandran (51) is located a kilometre from the main village where around 700 families live. The quarry owner, K Paramasivam, has bought all adjacent parcels of land, including a few leased earlier by the brothers for c
This story is from the August 07, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Madurai.
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