Sand Mafia | Out of Eden Walk
Yadav says India's sand mafia will not go away soon because it includes many business people and politicians. The police's cut of the "royalties" alone, he claims, inflates the price of his region's finite river sands from 15,000 rupees (about $200) a truckload to between 40,000 and 80,000 rupees. It is outrageous.