"Death Is The Only Option": Andhra Women Protest With Noose Around Neck

The women allege that the land they cultivate is being taken away forcibly and allotted to a granite mining company.

At a cashew garden in Andhra Pradesh's Uravakonda town, the agrarian calm is interrupted by an eery sight: Tribal women with sarees tied to tree branches as makeshift nooses around their necks.

"Death is the only option left if you don't listen to our pleas," they are heard saying in a video.

"If you do away with cashew gardens here, we have no option but to embrace death, because our livelihood depends on them," they said.

The women allege that the land they cultivate is being taken away forcibly and allotted to a granite mining company.