The Hindu : New Delhi News : `We will help Irfan's family take the case forward'

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Monday, Apr 03, 2006

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`We will help Irfan's family take the case forward'

New Delhi: Reacting to the acquittal of all the accused in the murder of cartoonist Irfan Hussain, Vinod Mehta, the Editor of Outlook magazine where he was working, today said they will support the family in challenging the trial court verdict.

"We are assisting (Irfan's) family all the way... Outlook and his family are going to be together to try to overturn this horrible verdict," Mehta said, speaking to NDTV 24X7 news channel here.

"We are going to go to the High Court and demand that the court looks at the evidence that the police collected... naturally, we cannot demand a re-investigation," Mehta said, asserting all the while that the slain cartoonist's family had to be "at the forefront".

Court acquitted accused

A city court recently acquitted all five accused, Mustafa Ansari, Sanjay, Heera Singh, Mohammed Jasim and Mohammed Shahid, of charges of abducting and killing Hussain nearly seven years ago.

According to the prosecution, Hussain was kidnapped and later killed by a gang of auto-snatchers on the national highway in east-Delhi on the night of March 8, 1999. -- PTI

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