New Delhi: Workers of Nokia India’s mobile manufacturing unit in Chennai on Monday moved the Delhi High Court seeking safeguarding their interests in view of the company’s ongoing legal battle with the Income Tax (IT) department over its tax liabilities.
The counsel for the workers told a bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Sanjeev Sachdeva that an application has been filed seeking impleadment as a party in the legal tussle.
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Fearing job loss, the plea said that the workers want the mobile manufacturing unit in Chennai to continue its operation irrespective of the outcome of the case.
The plea also seeks judicial intervention in ensuring the interests of the workers in view of the Nokia-Microsoft $7.2 billion deal.
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The workers have moved the court in the wake Nokia’s submission in the high court earlier that if the sale of Nokia’s unit in Chennai does not takes place, the company’s Indian arm will wind up its operations here over a period of 12 months and the assets here will have little value.
