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New Delhi, March 31: ALL the five people accused of killing Outlook cartoonist Irfan Hussein to steal his car seven years ago were acquitted by a trial court here today. Additional Sessions Judge Talwant Singh acquitted the accused saying the prosecution had "not been able to link the accused with the commission of crime beyond reasonable doubt". The case unravelled when key witness Banwari Lal...

Coimbatore: The Coimbatore Press Club today condemned the 'illegal arrest and assault' of the reporter of the Tamil magazine 'Kumudam' in Erode yesterday for 'unknown reasons'. In a statement, press club General Secretary, G Jehova, said the reporter, Sakthi alias Gomathi Shankar, was assaulted and absued by police after taking him to Erode taluka police station, which amounted to human rights...

Criminals on Boring Canal Road in Patna, on Thursday afternoon, attacked and seriously injured India Today's Patna-based chief correspondent Sanjay Kumar Jha. He was rushed to a private nursing home with severe back injury, the police said. The incident took place near Lalita Hotel and Sachdeva Coaching Institute on Boring Canal Road at around 3:00 pm. Interestingly, the manager of the Sachdeva...

Hyderabad, Mar 22 : A journalist working with a newspaper here was allegedly manhandled by the police and was detained for over nine hours in the police station last night. In a letter to Chief Minister YSR Reddy, the newspaper said the sub-editor of the paper was having a cup of tea at Punjagutta at about 11.45 pm last night when he was allegedly roughed up and dragged to the police station by...

A journalist of an English TV news channel, who was reporting live on holi celebrations in Chikpet area in Bangalore on Wednesday morning was molested by a gang of miscreants playing holi. According to the police, a gang of miscreants allegedly poured gulal and water colours on the journalist before a live camera, and tore her clothes. There were over 40 persons, who were playing holi at that...

A CNN-IBN employee was attacked and his vehicle set on fire in Lucknow's Hazratganj area on Tuesday morning, the channel has said. The attack came two days after CNN-IBN exposed the unaccounted wealth of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati. Four men with their faces covered dragged out two of the channel's employees from their vehicle and beat them up...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has expressed concern at the growing trend of violent attacks by rightwing outfits against journalists in Maharashtra. "Disagreement with views cannot be the reason to attack media houses. The media must be allowed to remain independent, and encouraged to resist pressure tactics, from whichever direction they come," said IFJ president Christopher...

PUNE: At least seven persons claiming to be activists of Shambaji Brigade forcefully entered the office of 'Lokmat' newspaper on Monday evening and ransacked the place in protest against a poem in the Marathi daily's Sunday supplement on Shivaji Maharaj. The activists threatened the employees for having published the poem by late GD Mudgulkar which referred Sant Ramdas Swam as Shivaji Maharaj's...

A journalist of the Imphal Free Press covering the Miss Manipur pageant Saturday evening was beaten black and blue by a commando of the Imphal East police station detailed for security at the venue when the scribe was trying to exit the venue. ALL BEAUTIES, NO BEAST HERE: Aircel Miss Manipur Contest 2006 under way February 18 at the Bhagyachandra Open Air Theatre (BOAT) in Manipur capital Imphal...

A journalist was seriously injured Friday when policemen assaulted him at Kakopathar, the scene of violent clashes last week that left nine people dead, according to Indo-Asian News Service (IANS). The journalist, Robin Dhekial Phukan, a correspondent with daily Asomiya Pratidin, had gone to the area to cover a visit by Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi. YOUNG NOT SPARED: A young girl being brought to...