Legal
India Court Rules Against Reliance in Gas Drilling Dispute
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An Indian court Friday ruled against billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries Ltd. and its partner BP Plc in a gas drilling dispute that’s been going on for more than a decade, according to a lawyer representing the litigant.
A two-judge bench of the Delhi High Court sided with the petroleum ministry, which had argued that the nation’s most valuable company unlawfully extracted natural gas from a neighboring offshore block controlled by state-run Oil & Natural Gas Corp.