New Delhi, March 19 -- A city court on Tuesday dismissed a plea of activist Medha Patkar to examine a new witness in her 2000 defamation case against Delhi Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena and said the judicial process couldn't be "held hostage to such tactics". The Narmada Bachao Andolan leader filed the case against Saxena when he headed an NGO in Gujarat for allegedly publishing a defamatory advertisement. Judicial magistrate Raghav Sharma noted that present case was pending for 24 years and the complainant had already examined all the witnesses listed at the time of filing of the complaint. "The judicial process cannot be held hostage to such tactics, especially in a case that has already been pending for over two decades," the ju...