Chandigarh, May 5 -- Claiming "political vendetta", the Trident Group on Monday appealed to the Punjab and Haryana high court for a joint inspection of its units by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) as it had no faith in the tests collected by the state board during a raid at its Barnala unit on April 30.

The PPCB raid came 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 the seven MPs who defected from the AAP on April 24.

Group's counsel, senior advocate Munisha Gandhi alleged procedural irregularities in ...