Protests planned at Vedanta's final company meet in UK

An activist group in the UK is planning to stage a "loud" demonstration outside the final annual general meeting of Indian mining tycoon Anil Agarwal's Vedanta Resources here on Monday to demand justice for the 13 protesters killed in a police shooting at the company's copper smelter in Tamil Nadu in May.

Foil Vedanta, a grassroots activist group centred in London, also blames the City of London Corporation and UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for failing to regulate or penalise the company, which will be formally delisted from the London Stock Exchange (LSE) on October 1.

"We cannot let Vedanta boss Anil Agarwal escape accountability and justice in the UK, under whose jurisdiction he has committed widespread financial, human rights and environmental crimes," said Foil Vedanta's Samarendra Das, who is the primary author of a new report titled 'Vedanta's Billions'.

The report will be handed to the FCA as part of a series of protests on Monday, calling on the UK's financial ...