Social Activist Medha Patkar sentenced to 5-month jail term by Delhi court

Social activist Medha Patkar has been sentenced to five-month of jail time in a 23-year-old defamation case by a Delhi court on Monday, July 1.

The defamation case was filed by the then president of the Ahemedabad-based NGO named National Council of Civil Liberties and present Delhi



lieutenant governor VK Saxena. Patkar has also been ordered to pay Rs 10 lakh as compensation to Saxena.

Rejecting Patkar’s plea to release her, the court stated, “Considering the facts…damages, age and ailment (of the accused), I am not inclined to give excessive punishment.”