PTI
 
Ahmedabad, Jul 1: A metropolitan court has ordered a police inquiry in a criminal defamation case against Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) leader Medha Patkar.
 
Metropolitan magistrate A R Patel ordered Narangpura police to conduct an inquiry in the case and submit a detailed report at the earliest on a complaint by president of National Council of Civil Liberties V K Saxena.

The controversy began when Patkar in an interview to a television channel alleged that Saxena had received civil contracts of the Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Ltd. In the same programme she had claimed that a case filed by her against Saxena was going on in a court in New Delhi.

Patkar said that she had a compact disc proving the allegations.

Saxena had denied the allegations and sent a legal notice to Patkar. He approached the court after she did not reply to the legal notice for 45 days.

Saxena's advocate T S Nanavati said the metropolitan court ordered police inquiry under Section 202 of the Criminal Procedure Code.