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A subsidiary of the Vedanta mining group in India has been accused of clearing forest land allegedly in violation of Supreme Court orders.

According to the BBC, Sterlite Industries has been accused of cutting down trees while constructing a new power plant in Chhattisgarh. However, the company has denied that they have cleared forests unlawfully and claimed of cutting down trees only on privately owned land

However, according to two government reports dated October 2010, trees were cut down in an area owned by the state government, which is officially designated as forestland in government records. The documents also contain satellite-mapping technology, which reveals that a large number of trees were felled in about 90 acres of forestland, the report said.

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