After more than two years of arduous living marred by persistent leakage in their apartments, residents of P&T Apartment Complex at Mundamveli on Tuesday (May 26) laid a day-long siege to the Greater Cochin Development Authority (GCDA) headquarters at Kadavanthra here, raising fresh concerns over the alleged violation of mandatory distance norms separating the 110 kV extra high tension (EHT) line passing through their neighbourhood from the twin towers. A group of nearly 80 residents, including women and children, staged the protest outside the GCDA office, shouting slogans against endangering their lives and properties by constructing apartments allegedly in disregard of provisions governing EHT electric lines. Over 400 people from 78 families of the erstwhile P&T Colony in the city had moved into the twin towers built by the GCDA in January 2024. The protest was eventually called off after Kochi MLA Mohammed Shiyas visited them and promised to petition Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan, demanding a Vigilance probe into the alleged corruption behind the construction of the apartments. The residents had long raised the issue …