3Photo© thehindu.comSupreme Court rejects Vedanta’s plea to reopen Thoothukudi smelting plant
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The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected multinational mining company Vedanta’s plea seeking permission to reopen its Sterlite copper smelting plant in Tamil Nadu’s Thoothukudi district, Live Law reported.
A Supreme Court bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra said that there had been “repeated breaches” and “serious violations” by Vedanta.
“The closure of industry is undoubtedly not a matter of first choice,” the bench said on Thursday. “However, the repeated nature of breaches, coupled with the severity of the violations, would, in this analysis, allow neither the statutory authorities nor the high court to take any other view unless they were to be oblivious of their plain duty.”
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