Mandya: Members of various progressive, Dalit, Raitha Sangha and Women’s Organisations staged a protest here recently demanding the District Administration to ban mining and stone quarrying completely around Krishna Raja Sagar (KRS) besides fulfilling other demands.
The protesters, shouting slogans against the Police and District Administration, demanded the State government to order a judicial probe into the death of a bonded labour Kariyappa Madar who died under mysterious circumstances at a quarry owned by one Umesh at Hangarahalli in Pandavapura taluk recently.
