India, July 31 -- Former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) councillor Tahir Hussain was on Thursday sentenced to life imprisonment by a Delhi court for the murder of Intelligence Bureau (IB) officer Ankit Sharma during the 2020 northeast Delhi riots.

Additional Sessions Judge Parveen Singh sentenced Hussain and four others to life imprisonment in the case. The Delhi Police had sought the death penalty, describing the killing of Ankit Sharma as "exceptionally brutal" and "cold-blooded". However, the court rejected the plea.

Hussain, who represented the Nehru Vihar ward in northeast Delhi, was a sitting AAP councillor when the communal violence broke out in February 2020.

Before entering politics, he was known locally as a businessman and later emer...