INDORE: Amid high drama, Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar was on Wednesday arrested in Dhar district, six hours after she was discharged from Bombay Hospital here. Large crowd of oustees were still camping in Chikalda and administration feared that the situation might snowball out of control. "The SDM court sent her to jail," he said, adding there were other cognizable offences registered against Patkar for abduction and wrongful confinement of officials and preventing government servant from discharging her duties. This is complete travesty of justice and nothing else but every attempt at intimidating and terrorising the andolan. ""As their vehicle was moving towards Barwani, Medha ji's vehicle was intercepted by nearly 35 police vehicles and been now taken over by them.

Source: Times of India August 09, 2017 16:47 UTC