MJ Akbar is a thorough professional, a gentleman and a brilliant teacher, a woman journalist said today before the Delhi court hearing the former editor's defamation case against a woman who has accused him of sex harassment in the #MeToo campaign. Journalist Joyeeta Basu is one of the six people MJ Akbar has named as his witnesses in the lawsuit that he filed a day after stepping down as union minister in the Narendra Modi government amid multiple allegations of sexual misconduct.