A local court in Ahmedabad has declined the plea of Delhi Lieutenant-Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena seeking a stay on a criminal trial till he holds office, in a two-decade-old case of assault on social and environment activist Medha Patkar.
Mr. Saxena and three others have been accused of assaulting the activist at Sabarmati Ashram in 2002.
On Monday, a magisterial court of P.N. Goswami rejected Mr. Saxena’s plea filed in March this year.
