Suspects in Hussain Murder Freed



Citing lack of evidence, a court in Delhi has acquitted five men accused of murdering the cartoonist Irfan Hussain. Hussain had been working for the Indian magazine Outlook in March 1999 when he was abducted and murdered. Mustafa Ansari, Sanjay Kumar, Heera Singh, Mohammed Jasim and Mohammed Sahid were the men arrested and now released, a carjacking ring who were said to have killed the cartoonist during an attempt to seize his car.

Hussain was only 37 years old and had been married just six years at the time of his death. A child of a prominent family in Nagpur, he had come to prominence in 1986 by winning a contest for his caricature of V.P. Singh. Hussain also worked for The Pioneer. Before the initial arrests, it had been rumored that his cartoons had led to his being threatened along with some other journalists.

In a long report preceding a plea for funds to help his family, Daryl Cagle wrote about the unresolved aspects of Hussain's case. The report also includes a photo of the late cartoonist.
 
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