Illegal sand mining in India has extracted a shocking toll.
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00:00All these things used to beat me, torture me,
00:03that you stop this, will you stop this or not, you won't leave them alive, you will kill them.
00:30A lot of interest, a lot of power, a lot of money, a lot of political connections
00:59which are vested in this specific sector.
01:11This beach sand mining has been going on for almost the last 20 years right now and is
01:17considered the biggest scam of India.
01:36The moment you take away a river's natural flow, a river's natural defenses, a river's natural ability to
01:44take the rain, harvest it and then give it, what you are going to do is to cause death. People will die.
01:51They had no safety rope, they had nothing to help them. Many of them died, they said,
02:17because when they went down there was a strong current and if there was a current they would just get washed away.