New Delhi: The Supreme Court is likely to conduct a hearing on November 29 on the Vedanta Group’s plea regarding the closure of its Sterlite copper unit in Tamil Nadu’s Tuticorin. Sameer Parekh, advocate-on-record for Sterlite Copper, said the plea was mentioned before a bench headed by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud for fixing the matters for final hearing. “We submitted that the case has been pending for a long time and needs an urgent solution since such a significant national asset is lying idle and the livelihood of thousands of people is at stake. The Hon’ble Court directed the matter to be listed for two non-miscellaneous days for a final hearing on top of the board”, said Parekh.
On October 9, the Supreme Court had said it had directed its registrar to allocate two dedicated dates to conduct a hearing on the Vedanta Group’s plea regarding the closure of its Sterlite copper unit in Tamil Nadu’s Tuticorin. In May this year, the apex court had asked the Tamil Nadu government to take appropriate decisions in connection with its April 10 direction by which it had allowed the Vedanta Group to carry out the upkeep of its Sterlite copper unit in Tuticorin under the supervision of a local-level Monitoring Committee.
