New Delhi: Social activist Medha Patkar has got herself into another scrape in West Bengal.
Patkar was in the thick of things when she tried to enter the fenced area of the Tata Motors small car project at Singur for the third time.
The police has to resort to a lathicharge to disperse the protestors led by her. Patkar said two of her associates, Amita Bag and Dhananjay Das, were injured in the lathicharge.
Additional Superintendent of Police, Hooghly, Asit Pal was quoted by news agency PTI as saying that the police had to resort to lathicharge when Patkar with her associates tried to enter the fenced area.
After the altercation with the police, the protestors began a sit-in demonstration a few metres away from the fence.
This is the third time that Medha Patkar has been detained by the West Bengal Police. She was held once in December when she tried to take a march for Singur farmers and once in January when she tried to enter Singur.
This is Patkar's first visit here after prohibitory orders under Section 144 CrPC were lifted following the Calcutta High Court's stricture on February 23 against the government's process for acquiring 997 acres for the project.
(With inputs from PTI)
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