<p>The stay order will be operative until the apex court takes up the matter for hearing again in the second week of December, officials said.<br /><br />Sterlite Industries, part of the London-based billionaire Anil Agarwal's Vedanta Resources, had moved the apex court Oct 14 against the high court order, which Oct 12 had directed immediate shut-down of the plant on environmental grounds, according to officials. The company has spent around Rs.500 crore on expansion of its Tuticorin plant.<br /><br />Last year, Sterlite announced additional investment to double its copper smelter capacity to 800,000 tonnes per annum (tpa) and setting up of a 160 MW captive power plant at Tuticorin, around 580 km from Chennai, to be commissioned next year.<br /><br /><br /><br /></p>
<p>The stay order will be operative until the apex court takes up the matter for hearing again in the second week of December, officials said.<br /><br />Sterlite Industries, part of the London-based billionaire Anil Agarwal's Vedanta Resources, had moved the apex court Oct 14 against the high court order, which Oct 12 had directed immediate shut-down of the plant on environmental grounds, according to officials. The company has spent around Rs.500 crore on expansion of its Tuticorin plant.<br /><br />Last year, Sterlite announced additional investment to double its copper smelter capacity to 800,000 tonnes per annum (tpa) and setting up of a 160 MW captive power plant at Tuticorin, around 580 km from Chennai, to be commissioned next year.<br /><br /><br /><br /></p>