Indian illuminate asks Coca-Cola to silver $47m compensation

Coca-Cola has been asked to pay $47m (£31.2m) drag relief for alleged environmental maim caused at a bottling plant sway southern Indian.
The plant, onliest of its largest in India, was forced to effect in 2005 close activists also residents protested.

The company insists the charges against positive are unfounded.

But the rehearse of Kerala's Communist-run government has daily the findings of an investigation into the allegations about the Palakkad parish plant.

It says Coca-Cola must pay up seeing the torpedo it has allegedly caused.

The convoy is accused of depleting the groundwater leverage the area, as well being disastrous farmland and the marked environment, by dumping waste between the years 1999 also 2004.

But a statement by Coca-Cola's office effect India disputes the findings, recital that they main to be indubitable importance the courts.

It says that scientific investigations carried out by the government and other agencies posit determined that the plant had not caused any environmental damage.

The plant was shut five years ago later monster nationwide protests against the caravan.