{"id":110596,"date":"2020-08-26T17:50:23","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T12:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/?p=110596"},"modified":"2020-08-26T18:19:58","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T12:49:58","slug":"vedanta-files-plea-in-sc-against-madras-hcs-refusal-to-reopen-sterlite-copper-plant-at-thoothukudi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/top-news-of-the-day\/news\/vedanta-files-plea-in-sc-against-madras-hcs-refusal-to-reopen-sterlite-copper-plant-at-thoothukudi\/","title":{"rendered":"Vedanta files plea in SC against Madras HC\u2019s refusal to reopen Sterlite Copper plant at Thoothukudi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>New Delhi:<\/strong> Vedanta has filed a plea in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/topic\/supreme-court-of-india-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Supreme Court<\/a> challenging the Madras <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/topic\/high-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">High Court<\/a> order which dismissed its plea to reopen the Sterlite Copper\u2019s smelter unit at Thoothukudi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A bench of the Madras High Court comprising Justices T.S. Sivagnanam and V. Bhavani Subbaroyan&nbsp;on August 18 dismissed the plea by&nbsp;Vedanta Limited challenging&nbsp;the Tamil Nadu government\u2019s closure of its Sterlite Copper plant at Thoothukudi. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plant was ordered shut by the Tamil Nadu government on May 28, 2018, after police firing killed 13 people protesting the polluting plant in their locality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sterlite Copper is India\u2019s second largest copper smelter. The plant\u2019s licence was not renewed.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The protest started among locals and environmental activists, who said that the air was becoming polluted and so was the water. The management of the plant, which used to produce over 400,000 tonnes annually, had denied those accusations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read Also<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/top-news-of-the-day\/news\/withdrawal-of-senior-designation-sc-defers-hearing-of-yatin-oza-plea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Withdrawal of Senior designation: SC defers hearing of Yatin Oza plea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<strong>National Green Tribunal&nbsp;<\/strong>had dismissed the government\u2019s closure decision and had ordered Vedanta to deposit Rs 2.50 crore as a token amount for their failures and asked the company to spend Rs 100 crores within a period of three years for the welfare of the inhabitants in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><strong><em>-India Legal Bureau <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vedanta has filed a plea in the Supreme Court challenging the Madras High Court order which dismissed its plea to reopen the Sterlite Copper\u2019s smelter unit at Thoothukudi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[92314,23952,75186,632,88548,15535,20232,70877,92315,39261],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/IL\/uploads\/2018\/09\/18124308\/NGT-gives-permission-to-remove-hazardous-substance-from-Sterlite-Copper-plant.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}