The company´s Kerala plant has seen accusations that the company is draining the region's natural resources and despoiling the environment.

The ruling could end up forcing the plant to close, as alternative sources of the high quantities of water required will be difficult to envisage. It has been given one month to cease its extractions.

The move comes as a major victory for large numbers of local residents that have claimed the company's overconsumption of water was turning their agricultural land into a desert.

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