Chennai

The bench, comprising Justices T S Sivagnanam and V Bhavani Subbaroyan, which concluded 28 days of hearing, could not continue as Justice Sivagnanam, was deputed to the Madurai bench of the High Court.

In view of the voluminous documents and records involved in the case, attempts to continue the hearing through video conferencing were also dropped.

Since Justice Sivagnanam has been deputed back to the principal bench at Chennai now, counsels representing the Vedanta and the State government represented Chief Justice A P Sahi, to re-allot the cases to the bench, comprising Justices Sivagnanam and Bhavani.

On December 13, as per the orders of the Chief Justice, the High Court registry notified that the bench comprising Justices Sivagnanam and Bhavani, which would hear the Vedanta’s plea on Sterlite from December 16 to 20.

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