Times of India reported that there is more trouble for the beleaguered Vedanta group. A court in Chhattisgarh's Korba district issued summons to the 'owner of Bharat Aluminium Company Limited and others' on charges of criminal trespass in the case involving the death of 41 workers last year.

Mr JN Chandra deputy director prosecution, representing Chhattisgarh government said that "The order does not mention the owner's name since the company's ownership deed was not available to the court, but it is well known that the owner of BALCO is Mr Anil Agarwal, the London based chairman of Vedanta group."

But other legal experts suggested the ownership could be vested in the board of directors and not the chairman alone. Vedanta group's Sterlite Industries controls majority stake in BALCO while the minority stake is held by the government of India.

Either way, lawyers said that the order by additional district and sessions judge M D Jagdalla was significant since it shifted liability from paid employees of the owner of the company.

On September 23, last year, 41 workers had been killed when an under construction chimney collapsed at the site of the company's upcoming thermal power plant.

(Sourced from Times of India)