India's top court has refused to permit the reopening of a copper smelter in Tamil Nadu in India.
Residents in the city of Tuticorin staged protests last year, arguing that the copper plant belonging to a subsidiary of mining giant Vedanta was harmful to their health, leading to its closure.
Our India correspondent Rebecca Bundhun reports.
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