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A Delhi court on Thursday acquitted Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena in a two-decade-old defamation case filed by activist Medha Patkar, Bar and Bench reported.

Judicial Magistrate First Class Raghav Sharma of the Saket courts held that the complainant had failed to prove the charges against the accused, PTI reported.

The case dates back to November 2000, when an advertisement titled “True face of Ms Medha Patkar and her Narmada Bachao Andolan” was published in The Indian Express, according to Bar and Bench. The advertisement was issued by the National Council for Civil Liberties, an organisation that Saxena headed at the time.