
NEW DELHI: Delhi Police on Friday arrested social activist Medha Patkar in reference to a defamation case filed by Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena in 2001. A senior police officer confirmed the event.
A Delhi court docket on Wednesday issued a non-bailable warrant towards activist Medha Patkar, observing that she was intentionally flouting its sentencing order to submit probation bonds and Rs 1 lakh as a wonderful in a defamation case.
On Wednesday, Patkar was to seem in court docket, furnish the probation bonds, and deposit the wonderful quantity. The choose noticed that Patkar’s plea looking for adjournment was “frivolous,” “mischievous,” and filed with the intent to “hoodwink” the court docket.
He warned Patkar that if she did not adjust to the phrases of the sentencing, the court docket could be “constrained to reconsider the benevolent sentence and alter the order on the sentence.”
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