A non-bailable warrant has been issued against Medha Patkar on Wednesday by the Delhi High court as she failed to appear before the court for providing bonds and also deposit the fine amount. The directive comes after the HC rejected her plea to stay the proceedings on the execution of a probation bond pertaining to a defamation case filed by now Delhi LG VK Saxena in 2000. The case is related to when Saxena filed the case against Patkar as the President of a non-profit called National Council of Civil Liberties for issuing a press release calling him a coward and also alleging his participation in hawala transactions.
The court, on May 24 last year observed that not only were her statements defamatory but also incited a negative perception about him. It also added that that her comment stating that Saxena was ‘mortgaging’ the people of Gujrat along with their resources to foreign interests amounts to a direct attack on his integrity.
Saxena라이브 바카라 council, advocate Gajinder Kumar told PTI that, "In case the convict does not comply with its order by the next date of hearing on May 3, then the court will consider altering the benevolent sentence passed on April 8."
A sessions court in Delhi had earlier upheld the decision on April 2 that convicted her for defamation in May 2024. However, the institution had reduced her punishment to a one-year probation instead of a five-month jail term and also decreased the fine from Rs. 10 lakh to Rs. 1 lakh.
She had earlier been sentenced to a five-month imprisonment on July 1 last year post which she had filed an appeal in the sessions court.
