Input-starved Vedanta sues Nalco over exclusion from tender to buy alumina

Anil Agarwal-led firm also urges Odisha HC to order a stay on PSU company's alumina sales to other entities

Faced with a raw material crunch to run its aluminium plant in Odisha, Vedanta has sought the court’s intervention to buy alumina from public sector National Aluminium Company (Nalco), which is currently exporting its surplus production while the domestic aluminium makers are reeling under shortage of alumina.

In a writ petition filed in the Odisha High Court, Vedanta has prayed for issue of direction to Nalco to consider its bid for purchase of alumina. It has also urged the court to order a stay on sale of alumina by the state-owned company to other entities, pending the disposal of the