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Gujarat charges pharma major for pollution

the Gujarat High Court has issued notices to Alembic Ltd, the Gujarat government and Gujarat State Pollution Control Board (gpcb) over contamination of groundwater in Paneval village in Panchamahal district of Gujarat.

The Vadodara-based Alembic, one of the oldest pharmaceutical companies in India, has a plant in the village manufacturing bulk drugs.

Farmers of Paneval led by Vinay Puri