The Supreme Court has refused a plea by the government to review its September 10 order allowing a National Green Tribunal-appointed ‘independent and credible committee’, led by former high court judge Justice Tarun Agarwala, to look into the State’s closure of the Sterlite Copper plant in Thoothukudi district.
On September 10, a Bench of Justices Rohinton Fali Nariman and Indu Malhotra rejected objections raised by Tamil Nadu against NGT's August 20 decision to appoint the Justice Agarwala committee without first deciding the question of maintainability and merit of the Vedanta appeal before it.