MUMBAI: At the recently held Mumbai Press Club Red Ink Awards, Dilli Aaj Tak executive editor Shams Khan won the prestigious award for ‘Excellence in Indian Journalism – 2015’ under the ‘Human Rights – Television’ category.

Khan has won the accolade for the series ‘Koi Lauta De Mere’. The five episode mini-series highlights the plight of victims who faced government and police injustice for being of a different faith.

Khan led the Aaj Tak team that did an in-depth research on a few selected people who were victims of a prejudiced system. The exclusive series by Aaj Tak created a ripple effect with some of the protagonists being immediately released from prison after the show was telecast on the channel.