Medha Patkar fined Rs.5000 for not appearing in court
Medha Patkar fined Rs.5000 for not appearing in court
New Delhi, 10 March, 2011
Metropolitan court in Delhi today imposed fine of Rs.5,000 on Narmada Bachao Aandolan (NBA) leader Medha Patkar for failing to appear before it and seeking exemption from personal appearance, in cases of defamation filed by her and V.K Saxena, president of Ahmedabad-based NGO National Council For Civil Liberties against each other.
The court ordered to impose a cost of Rs.200 on the NBA leader in another defamation case filed against her by Saxena. Medha Patkar’s counsel had sought exemption for her personal appearance, saying she was unable to appear before the court as she missed her flight from Indore. However the court noted that this was not the first time she was seeking exemption. Moreover O.P. Malaviya, counsel for Saxena, strongly opposed the plea of Patkar saying that it was not supported by any document. Malaviya said that the cost of Rs. 1,000 in each two cases were imposed on her for the same reason earlier as Patkar has not been attending the court proceedings regularly.
Saxena had filed the case in Ahmedabad but it was later transferred to New Delhi by the Supreme Court on the plea of Patkar, who said that she feared for her life in Gujarat.
The court posted the matter for May 6.
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This is another anti-INDIA activist who has no solution to any problem… she always creates problem…. she is big problem for future of INDIA… This kind of people are working for foreign countries as a agent to hurt INDIAN values…. She only know how to agitate people and get funding from foreign powers.. JAY HIND.
Her funds will come from NGO USA. If this person was in US she would be languishing in prison.
=>”She missed her flight” – That means she has lot of money.
=>”I fear for my life in Gujarat” – A famous punch line to be used by all NGOs (Code of conduct) to delay the case and duck the query.
India badly needs to revise all these fine amount figures. 5000Rs fine is a joke.
Even scholarship form for economically backward students say ..parents’ yearly income has to be less than something like 10,000Rs to qualify for scholarship of 500Rs.
So many such examples. These figures should be revised with time and inflation.
This lady is the biggest curse on us. And one of the principle reasons why people’s faith on democracy is getting shaken up is because anti-nationals like Medha Patkar can hold the country to ransom and cause delays and inflated costs. Would really celebrate if some day she is behind the bars and her foreign funding is exposed
Only Rs 5000.00 in fine for wasting everyone’s time and playing with law system? She deserves more.