Tag: Sterlite Copper Smelting Plant

Thoothukudi: With the death toll in police firing rising to 10, an uneasy calm on Wednesday gripped Tamil Nadu’s port town Thoothukudi where widespread violence erupted a day earlier during protests against the Sterlite Copper Smelting plant. Of the nearly 100 people injured, the condition of two was said to be critical in hospital. Families of […]

New Delhi: In a set-back to Vedanta, the Supreme Court on Monday refused to order the re-opening of its Sterlite Copper Smelting plant located in Tamil Nadu as it set-aside the National Green Tribunal’s (NGT) December 15 order on the grounds of jurisdiction. Setting aside the NGT order on maintainability, a bench of Justice Rohinton […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a plea by Vedanta seeking access to its Thoothukudi-located Sterlite Copper Smelting plant in Tamil Nadu to carry out maintenance work. Describing the plea as frivolous, a bench of Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman and Justice Justice Vineet Saran said that they were not here to control the High […]