India, Oct. 11 -- A Delhi court on Saturday convicted former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) councillor Tahir Hussain for abetting rioting during the February 2020 northeast Delhi riots in Dayalpur, holding that "he allowed rioters to use the terrace of his house" as a vantage point to pelt stones at passersby and nearby properties.

The court's judgment is the second conviction against Hussain, as he was on July 13 held guilty in the murder case of Intelligence Bureau staffer Ankit Sharma, who was killed during the same riots. Hussain was subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment in that case.

Additional sessions judge Parveen Singh of Karkardooma courts, in a 64-page judgment, held that the prosecution had established that a mob gathered on th...