Lucknow, March 29 -- Advocate Romil Sagar on Saturday expressed happiness over the acquittal of all accused in the 2004 Cantt firing case, describing it as a win for justice.

Speaking with ANI, Sagar shed light on the timeline of the case and said that Mukhtar Ansari had filed an FIR against the accused, including former MLC Brijesh Singh, which was later revealed to have been fake.

"This is a case from 2004 when Mukhtar Ansari had filed an FIR against Brijesh Singh and 20-22 others. In it, he had alleged that they were coming from Varanasi and had a whole convoy with them. Brijesh Singh and Krishnanand Rai's men had stopped that convoy and opened fire indiscriminately... After this, Mukhtar Ansari filed an FIR and another FIR was also ...