VASCO, Feb. 7 -- 80-year-old Indira Halarnkar who was declared dead by her daughter-in-law, now has an army of Baina locals fighting for her. But this is not a recent fight. For nine years Indira has been fighting to prove that she is alive and get her rightful ownership of the house which belonged to her late husband

Locals of Baina took to the streets and threatened an intense agitation and morcha, against the Mormugao civic body, till the octogenarian is restored her "alive status", gets her name back on the voters' list, and her house which her daughter in law transferred in her name, after managing to pronounce her mother in law "dead". The house was originally in the name of her father-in-law, who had passed away.

Anil Chodankar, ...