Chennai-based senior Journalist Sandhya Ravishankar who published a four-part series about the sand mafia of Tamil Nadu on The Wire in 2017 has alleged that she is being harassed by supporters of S Vaikundarajan.
Vaikundarajan owns one of the country’s largest sand mining conglomerates in the country.
According to The Wire, she had written a letter to the Press Council of India stating that:
“I have been harassed online with trolls on social media using foul language against me, calling me a ‘corrupt’ journalist, a ‘fake’ journalist etc. My mobile number was published on Twitter and Facebook by the anonymous trolls supporting Mr S Vaikundarajan, the largest beach sand miner in the country (refer to Part 03 for details about him) – my mobile number was published with a note in Tamil saying that I was ‘anti-Jallikattu’ and asking people ‘not to call her’.”