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Medha Patkar (née Khanolkar; born 1 December 1954) is a convicted Indian activist working on political and social issues for tribals, dalits, farmers, labourers and women facing injustice in India. She is an alumna of TISS , a premier institute of social science research in India.
3 days ago · A Delhi court on Monday sentenced activist Medha Patkar to five months imprisonment in a 23-year-old criminal defamation case filed by Delhi LG Vinai Kumar Saxena. Patkar was also directed to pay Rs 10 lakh compensation to Saxena. Taking into account her age and health condition, Raghav Sharma, Judicial Magistrate (First Class), said he won’t give an excessive punishment of one to two years. Moreover, the judge ordered a one-month suspension of the sentence under Section 389(3) of the CrPC ...
3 days ago · A Delhi court on Monday sentenced renowned social activist Medha Patkar to five months of imprisonment in a 23-year-old defamation case filed by the then president of the non-profit organisation ...
3 days ago · A Delhi court on Monday sentenced social activist Medha Patkar to five months simple imprisonment in a 24-year-old defamation suit against her by VK Saxena, who is now the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi. The court also ordered Patkar to pay Rs 10 lakh in damages to Saxena. Medha Patkar was convicted in the case by the court of Metropolitan Magistrate Raghav Sharma in May this year. She had been locked in a legal battle with Saxena since 2000 after she filed a suit against him for publishing ...
3 days ago · A Delhi court sentenced Narmada Bachao Andolan activist Medha Patkar to five months of simple imprisonment and ordered her to pay Rs 10 lakh in a defamation case filed by V K Saxena, now Delhi's ...
3 days ago · Delhi court on Monday sentenced activist Medha Patkar to five months imprisonment in the defamation case lodged against her by Delhi Lieutenant Governor V.K. Saxena. She was also imposed a fine of Rs 10 lakh by Metropolitan Magistrate Raghav Sharma. The 23-year-old defamation case was filed against her when Saxena headed an NGO in Gujarat.
Medha Patkar is an Indian activist and one of the initiators of The Save the Narmada Movement, Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA). The movement has mobilised people against huge dam projects since the late 1980s.
May 29, 2012 · Medha Patkar, Indian social activist known chiefly for her work with people displaced by the Narmada Valley Development Project (NVDP), a large-scale plan to dam the Narmada River and its tributaries in the Indian states of Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, and Maharashtra.
3 days ago · Medha Patkar sentenced to five months in prison in 23-year-old defamation case V.K. Saxena, who at the time was the president of the National Council for Civil Liberties, an NGO, had filed the ...
May 24, 2024 · A Delhi court on Friday convicted Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) leader Medha Patkar in a defamation case lodged against her by V K Saxena, the incumbent lieutenant governor of the national capital. Metropolitan Magistrate Raghav Sharma found Patkar guilty of criminal defamation.
