NEW DELHI (AP) — A New Delhi court has acquitted a journalist of criminal defamation over sexual harassment accusations she made against a former junior government minister. M.J. Akbar had denied the accusations and filed the defamation case against journalist Priya Ramani in 2018. Her accusations spurred more than 20 women to come forward saying they also had been harassed by Akbar during his previous career as one of the country’s most prominent news editors. Akbar resigned from his post as a junior external affairs minister. He was one of the most powerful men to step down in India’s #MeToo movement at the time.
