New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday declined to entertain a plea by NGO operator Medha Patkar seeking permission to examine an additional witness in a 25-year-old defamation case against Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena, and instead allowed her to withdraw the appeal. Patkar had challenged a Delhi High Court order of July 29, which upheld a trial court decision refusing her request to bring in another witness. A bench of Justices M.M. Sundresh and Satish Chandra Sharma, while indicating i...Read More

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has refused to interfere with the conviction of NGO operator Medha Patkar in a 25-year-old defamation case filed by Delhi Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena. A bench of Justices M M Sundresh and N Kotiswar Singh declined to disturb the Delhi High Court’s order, which had released Patkar on “probation of good conduct” but required her to appear before the trial court once every three years. The apex court, however, set aside the penalty imposed and clarified that t...Read More

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday upheld the conviction of controversial NGO operator Medha Patkar in a criminal defamation case filed in 2001 by V.K. Saxena, who is now the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi. Justice Shalinder Kaur, presiding over a single-judge Bench, dismissed the revision plea filed by Patkar, which had challenged an earlier Saket Court order that rejected her criminal appeal and maintained her conviction. The judge noted that Patkar could not establish any procedur...Read More

New Delhi: A parliamentary committee meeting on rural development was abruptly called off on Tuesday after BJP MPs, including former Union Minister Parshottam Rupala, staged a walkout in protest against the presence of social activist Medha Patkar. The BJP members objected strongly, with some labelling Patkar “anti-national” and questioning whether someone like the “Prime Minister of Pakistan” could also be invited to such discussions. The meeting, chaired by Congress MP Saptagiri Sanka...Read More

Delhi: A Delhi court issued a non-bailable warrant on Wednesday against controversial NGO operator Medha Patkar after she failed to meet the conditions of her release on probation. Patkar had been convicted in a defamation case filed by Delhi Lieutenant Governor (LG) VK Saxena. The court had ordered her to deposit a bond of ₹25,000 and compensation of ₹1 lakh by April 23, but she failed to comply. Patkar was sentenced to five months of imprisonment and fined in May 2024. Additional Sessions...Read More

New Delhi: A Delhi court on Tuesday granted NGO operator Medha Patkar one year of probation in a 24-year-old defamation case filed by current Delhi Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena. Additional Sessions Judge Vishal Singh of the Saket court ruled that the offense was not serious enough for imprisonment and released her on probation for good conduct. The court also reduced the fine imposed on the 70-year-old Narmada Bachao Andolan leader from ₹10 lakh to ₹1 lakh, to be paid to Saxena. The ca...Read More

New Delhi: A local court has rejected controversial NGO operator Medha Patkar’s application to introduce and examine an additional witness in her ongoing defamation case against Delhi Lieutenant-Governor (LG) V. K. Saxena. Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC) Raghav Sharma of Saket Court ruled that the plea appeared to be a strategic attempt to delay proceedings rather than a genuine necessity. The court stressed that allowing such requests without valid justification could set a precedent ...Read More