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Deputy Superintendent of Police H C Pathak, with a group of policemen, visited the Umreth police station in the same compound where the court is located. He donned the role of a teacher making his staff aware of Teesta and Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) activist Medha Patkar, the two high profile social activists, who do not enjoy popularity in the state.
Interestingly, not a single woman police constable, who were moved from nearby
police stations and deployed here for extra precaution, knew about Teesta or Patkar. Pathak had to narrate the April 7, 2002 incident that had taken place at the Sabarmati Ashram, where Patkar was mobbed by protestors and the police had to resort to baton charge to disperse them. Even a few journalists had sustained injuries in that violence.
Patkar was attending a peace meeting with some NGO leaders and Gandhians, when the protestors led by BJP's youth wing president Amit Thakkar had barged into the ashram.
Pathak later outlined the preparations done for Teesta's arrival and asked them not to allow any one to create a situation, which could land the police in the dock. When Teesta arrived, the woman constables escorted her without any hassle from the people gathered there. They had also asked a few people from Taluka Panchayat to vacate the court premise to maintain law and order.
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