India, May 1 -- The Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) on Friday assured the Punjab and Haryana high court that no coercive measures will be taken against the Trident Group until Monday.

This undertaking follows a petition filed by the group's managing director, Deepak Nanda, seeking 15 days' notice before any state action.

The legal challenge comes in the wake of an unprecedented raid on the company's Barnala unit on Thursday, just days after the group's founder and Rajya Sabha member, Rajinder Gupta, resigned from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) to join the BJP. Gupta, a prominent industrialist with a reported net worth exceeding Rs.10,600 crore, was among seven MPs who defected from the AAP on April 24.

In its plea, the company charact...