As it had done on previous occasions, the licence for the plant was renewed for another three months with several stringent conditions attached to it, they said. The conditions attached to the renewal of licence included furnishing a certificate on the safety of the products from a central laboratory.
Though the plant had been virtually dysfunctional for the last few years in the backdrop of legal battles and agitations by anti-Cola groups, the company had been getting its license renewed every three months on the strength of last year's High Court order, that directed the local body to consider the company's request.
The state government and the panchayat had moved the Supreme Court against the High Court order.