Social activist Medha Patkar and some of her associates were arrested here on Saturday while they were going to Kachri village of the district, where farmers had held protests and clashed with police against acquisition of their land by the UP Government for power plant.
Additional SP (trans-Yamuna) Ashutosh Mishra said a case against Patkar and the others was registered as they had not taken prior permission from the district administration to visit the “sensitive area”.