PoliticsIndia shuts down key copper plant amid pollution uproar
Vedanta's smelter accounts for 40% of country's refining capacity
Indians protest pollution from a Sterlite Industries copper smelter outside the company's office in Bangalore on May 24. Two days earlier, 13 demonstrators died in clashes with police.
YUJI KURONUMA, Nikkei staff writer
NEW DELHI -- The south Indian state of Tamil Nadu ordered a copper plant controlled by resources group Vedanta to close on Monday night following months of protests against pollution, knocking out 40% of the country's refining capacity for the vital industrial metal.