How graft grew on Granite

The former Collector of Madurai district in Tamil Nadu, U Sagayam, wrote to the Principal Secretary of the State Industries Department in May, about illegal granite quarrying in Madurai. He stated that the loss of revenue to the government in recent times in Madurai district alone would be more than R16,000 crore. The letter was leaked to the press and the granite issue literally exploded and became the biggest scam to be exposed in recent times.

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