Mumbai, July 21 -- US-based short-seller Viceroy Research has disputed former Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud's legal opinion on its allegations of financial misconduct and misrepresentation against Vedanta Group.

Viceroy argued that Chandrachud's legal opinion did not answer questions raised by it with regards to dividend payments and alleged financial mismanagement at the mining and minerals conglomerate.

Justice Chandrachud's opinion "fails to refute, investigate, or even engage with a single substantive financial allegation in our reports," the short-seller said in a report on Monday, 21 July, its eighth note on Vedanta in 13 days.

Vedanta has consistently denied Viceroy's allegations, terming the accusations baseless.

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