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Tahir Hussain’s political fall in IB officer Ankit Sharma murder case<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

NEW DELHI: Former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain<\/a> on Friday said he would challenge his conviction and life sentence in the Delhi High Court after a Delhi court sentenced him and four others to life imprisonment for the murder of Intelligence Bureau (IB) officer Ankit Sharma<\/a> during the 2020 northeast Delhi riots.“I will get justice from the High Court,” Hussain told reporters after the Karkardooma Court pronounced the sentence.Additional sessions Judge Praveen Singh sentenced Hussain along with co-convicts Shah Alam, Mehtab, Gul Firoz and Mohammad Riyan after hearing arguments on the quantum of punishment. While the Delhi Police had sought the death penalty, calling the murder a “rarest of rare” case, the court held that the prosecution had failed to establish that the convicts were beyond the possibility of reform and instead awarded life imprisonment.The court had convicted all five accused earlier this month. The judgment was delivered amid tight security in a packed courtroom attended by senior Delhi Police officials, including officers from the Crime Branch.During sentencing, Special public prosecutor Madhukar Pandey argued that Sharma’s murder was premeditated and exceptionally brutal. He told the court that the IB officer suffered 51 injuries, seven of which were individually sufficient to cause death. The prosecution alleged Sharma, who was unarmed, was surrounded by a mob, repeatedly assaulted, dragged with a cloth tied around his neck and his body dumped in a nearby drain.The prosecution further argued that Hussain, who was serving as an AAP councillor at the time of the riots, had a public duty to protect citizens but instead participated in the conspiracy that led to Sharma’s killing. It urged the court to impose capital punishment, describing the crime as one that shocked the collective conscience of society.<\/p>\n

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