Sterlite Copper Unit re-applied a plea for reopening its copper unit. The Madras High Court on Tuesday rejected a plea from mining giant Vedanta to order reopening of its Sterlite copper unit at Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu. While the owners of Sterlite termed the decision as a temporary setback while politicians across the political arena in Tamil Nadu welcomed the decision. A division bench of Justices TS Sivagnanam and V Bhavani Subbaroyan upheld the orders of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board directing to closure the unit in May 2018.
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In its arguments, while the hearing was going on, Vedanta had claimed the closure order was nothing but 'naked discrimination' against the company and a knee-jerk reaction of the state to 'appease' a section of people with vested interest after 13 protesters were killed in the police firing. Rejecting the allegations, the state government had said that it has full authority and powers to shut down a factory when it causes serious threats to the environment and ecology. And, thus, making it one of the valid decisions to shut down the Sterlite copper unit.
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The Sterlite unit had flaunted many rules which amounted to a violation of statutory provisions warranting closure of the factory, it had told the court. The court, in its judgment, that runs over 800 pages dismissed a batch of writ petitions from Vedanta and others challenging the closure.
