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Tahir Hussain gets life term in Ankit Sharma murder
The Hindu··31 Jul
Delhi Court on July 31 sentenced former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain and four others to life imprisonment for murdering Intelligence Bureau staffer Ankit Sharma during February 2020 riots. Judge Praveen Singh had convicted Hussain, Javed, Anas, Nazim and Kasim while acquitting six others. Police sought death penalty after post mortem recorded 51 ante mortem injuries from sharp and blunt weapons.
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What It Means For You
- Delhi residents following 2020 northeast riots cases may note Tahir Hussain received life imprisonment while six co accused were acquitted in the Ankit Sharma trial.
- Families of riot victims can track remaining trials as police had sought the death penalty citing 51 injuries on the Intelligence Bureau officer's body.
- Anyone in Chand Bagh and Dayalpur areas may recall Sharma's body was recovered from a drain near a mosque after he went missing on February 25, 2020.
What's Happening
- Delhi Court on July 31 sentenced former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain and four others to life imprisonment for murdering Intelligence Bureau staffer Ankit Sharma during February 2020 riots.
- Additional Sessions Judge Praveen Singh had convicted Hussain, Javed, Anas, Nazim and Kasim earlier in July while acquitting six other accused.
- Police sought death penalty calling the killing rarest of rare after post mortem recorded 51 ante mortem injuries from sharp and blunt weapons.
February 2020 Chand Bagh Killing
- Sharma's father Ravinder Kumar filed the FIR after his son failed to return home on February 25, 2020 and his body was found in a drain.
- Hussain was acquitted on conspiracy and abetment of mutiny charges but convicted on murder, kidnapping, rioting with deadly weapons and promoting enmity.
- Charges were framed in March 2023 after a lengthy trial in the Karkardooma court over one of the most prominent deaths in the 2020 Delhi violence.
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