Indian mining company Adani has agreed to end its marathon legal pursuit of environmental activist Ben Pennings.

Pennings declared victory on Thursday, after the Queensland supreme court signed off on orders on Wednesday, ending the five-and-a-half-year court battle. The order requires Pennings not to seek to acquire Adani’s confidential information or to ask others to do so.

The case began in 2020. Adani made an unsuccessful application to conduct an unannounced search of Pennings’s family home in June 2020, for possible evidence he had obtained its confidential information related to the Carmichael coalmine.

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Court documents in that case detailed that Adani hired a private investigator to surveil the activist and his family members, including taking

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