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Vice President Hamid Ansari presented <i >Outlook</i> Editor-in-Chief Vinod Mehta with the International Press Institute (IPI) award for Excellence in Journalism, 2007, on December 19
The investigation on the war-room leak and Scorpene defence deal was mounted by special correspondent Saikat Datta. Justice A.S. Anand, former chief justice of India and chairman of the jury, congratulated Outlook "for its efforts to further the public interest through its objective reporting."