Indian Court Asks Vedanta Not To Restart Its Tuticorin Plant Until January 21

• Radhakrishna N S
• 22 December, 2018

By: Radhakrishna N S

An India court on Friday (21) said that mining giant Vedanta can’t restart its copper smelter in country’s Tamil Nadu state until it hears a case challenging a ruling by country’s environment court, National Green Tribunal (NGT) in favour of Vedanta. The copper smelter located at Tuticorin, a coastal town in India’s Southern state, Tamil Nadu was ordered to close by Tamil Nadu state government over alleged environment pollution which caused to violent protests in May 2018 which ended in police firing on the demonstrators killing 13 innocent leaves. The current case was registered in the Madras High Court by…

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