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Medha not freed

BHOPAL: While the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) leader, Medha Patkar, and another activist, Ashish Mandloi, continued to remain lodged in jail, all the other tribals and farmers, who were arrested last week near Badwani, were released from the Badwani Jail on Tuesday.

Ms. Patkar was arrested on July 25 and detained at the Indore Central Jail.

She was leading an agitation, described by the NBA as “the struggle for land-based rehabilitation,” which took the form of forcible occupation of government farmland at Taloon (near Badwani) by the Sardar Sarovar and other Narmada Valley dam-affected tribals, farmers, landless labourers and fish-workers.

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