Court refuses to hear Patkar’s plea against Delhi L-G in assault case

Patkar had submitted that despite it being the responsibility of the government to respond to Saxena’s plea, it was yet to file any response and was “indirectly helping the accused”.

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Patkar had sought that she be permitted to make oral and written submissions in response to Saxena’s plea. (Representational/File)

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An Ahmedabad magistrate court Monday rejected the application moved by social activist Medha Patkar seeking permission to make written and oral submissions in New Delhi Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena’s plea for abeyance of a criminal trial in a 2005 assault case.

Patkar had sought that she be permitted to make oral and written submissions in response to Saxena’s plea. However, her counsel Advocate Govind Parmar said the court of magistrate P N Goswami rejected her plea noting the judgement the social activist relied on would not be applicable in the current case.

Patkar had submitted that despite it being the responsibility of the government to respond to Saxena’s plea, it was yet to file any response and was “indirectly helping the accused”.

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Saxena and three others, including Ellisbridge BJP MLA Amit Shah, Vejalpur BJP MLA Amit Thaker and Congress leader Rohit Patel, have been accused of unlawful assembly, rioting, voluntarily causing hurt, wrongful restraint, intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace and criminal intimidation, for allegedly attacking activist Medha Patkar in 2002 outside the Sabarmati Gandhi Ashram.

After invoking Constitutional provisions that grant immunity to Governors and the President from being answerable to courts while holding office, Saxena had sought that criminal trial against him be kept in abeyance till the time he occupied the L-G office.

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